Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c.
CHAPTER XV.
Public Instruction--Corps of Cadets--Universities and Elementary Schools; Anecdote--Plan of Education--Motives for attending the Universities--Statistics--Professors; their Ignorance--Exclusion of Foreign Professors--Engineering-- Obstacles to Intellectual Improvement--Characteristics of the Sclavonic Race 127