Chapter XXVIII: Conclusion

This book admits of no real conclusion, since its sole object is to throw a few sidelights on a struggle which is still going on, and which is possibly still in its infancy. My experience of it so far leads me to believe that there are only two sides in this struggle (although at first sight it appears to be infinitely more complicated), and that these two sides are the same which have split up all countries in all times under various names such as Roundheads and Cavaliers, or Reds and Whites.

In Russia the two classes are the defenders and the opponents of the Government, or rather of the autocracy. The former base their contentions on the affirmation that Russia is an Oriental country and that Western institutions are unsuited to the Russian people. Parenthetically, I must mention that I am not alluding to the extreme reactionaries—to those people who wish to go back to institutions which existed before the time of Peter the Great. I am referring to intelligent people who, while belonging to no political parties, simply disbelieve in the Liberal movement in Russia, consider it to be the hysterical cackling of an unimportant minority, and think that the whole matter is mere stuff and nonsense. The opinion of these people is certainly worth considering, not because they are more impartial than others who belong to parties, since their ideas are equally based upon prejudice, but because they may be right. These people say that all talk of a Constitution is beside the mark. They argue thus:

“We must have a Constitution, just as we have an Army and a Navy, because the idea soothes the revolution-haunted breasts of foreign financiers, but we shall never have a real Constitution because we don’t want one. Reforms? Oh, yes, as many as you please, on paper, signed and countersigned, but they will remain a dead letter, because they are not adapted to the character and the spirit of the nation. You cannot force Russian peasants to own land in the way Western peasants do. You can make laws telling them to do so, but if you force them you will only drive them to rebellion. Russia is like China; you can draw up a Constitution for Russia, but when it is carried out you will find that the only practical difference between the old state of affairs and the new is that the writing-table of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is to be oblong instead of round. People say that the Russian people is good and that its Government is bad, but the faults of the people are not the result of the inherent vices of the Government; the vices of the Government are the logical result of the faults, which in their turn are the inevitable complement of the good qualities, of the people. The desire for Liberal reforms based on Western examples is merely a fictitious agitation of a minority, namely, the ‘Intelligenzia’ or middle class, who have forgotten and lost their native traditions and instincts and have adopted and not properly assimilated the traditions and instincts of Western Europe. They have ceased to be Russian, and they have not become European. They have taken the European banner of ideals, but they do not know what to do with it; they cannot hold it up in their weak Slav hands. The result is words, words, words. This chatter will continue for a time, and when people get tired of listening, it will cease. As for the people, the real people, they will settle their affairs with those immediately connected with them, with their landlords, &c. The Government will make plenty of reforms on paper and have a Duma; but everything will go on exactly as it was before. Because you cannot change the character of a people, and the form of government they enjoy is the result and the expression of their qualities and of their defects.”

Such are the arguments I have often heard advanced by these people, and I say once more that they may be right. Three years ago I was firmly convinced that they were right, and even now I have an open mind on the subject, although two years of close contact with Russians of all classes have led me to change my own opinion, and to agree with the other equally impartial people, who are just as Russian and have just as much knowledge of the country and experience of their fellow countrymen, and who flatly deny the whole thing. According to this school, the comparison with China is wrong because the Chinese are intellectually a highly civilised nation, and the proportion of them who can read and write is large. The present _régime_ in Russia is not the natural expression of national characteristics, but a fortuitous disease which has been allowed to spread without ever having been radically treated. Neither Autocracy nor Bureaucracy is a thing which has grown out of the immemorial traditions and habits of the Russian people; Autocracy was the product of a comparatively recent change in Russian history, and Bureaucracy the accidental result of the further changes introduced by a man of genius. The Government made certain things impossible: such as education for the peasants, laws for the peasants, justice, &c.; then, when the results of these prohibitions began to make themselves felt, turned round and said: “You see what these men are like; it is no use giving them anything because they are hopeless; they are like niggers and must be treated as such.” This has been the proceeding of the Government: to prevent, prevent, and prevent again; and then, when the explosion resulting from the prevention occurred, to observe how right they had been in preventing, and how necessary it was to prevent more and more, because it was the only thing the people understood. In this blindness and obstinacy, year after year deferring the payment of their debt, they have let the interest accumulate; and when they eventually have to pay, far more will be required of them than they need originally have surrendered.

The people who represent these two schools of thought both say that they are Russia. They assert: “We are Russia—tout le reste est littérature.” Only time can show which is right. I have noticed that with the representatives of both these schools the wish is father to the thought and that they generalise on their own desires and their own experience coloured by those desires. Which really represents Russia, we shall know perhaps in ten years’ time. As far as my own experience goes among peasants, workmen, &c., they have all been representatives of the second school. But then, the first school would say that this is immaterial, because the people may be thirsty for law, and yet incapable of drinking it.

But those who belong to the second school, and without following any party are liberal in thought and deed, say to their opponents: “If it is true that what you represent is really Russia, we have no further wish to remain Russians, and the day you are proved to be in the right, we will emigrate and settle in Turkey, in Persia, or in China.”

INDEX

Agrarian Question, the—
Agitation, beginnings of the, 98, 99
Cadets, attitude towards the, 230
Cause of the problem, 178–79
Duma, speeches in the, 235
Expropriation scheme, 179–81
Government’s attitude towards, 108–9
Peasants’ view of the land purchase, 145–47;
of possession, 290–91
Solutions proposed, 88–89, 179–83, 230–32

Aladin, M.—
Politics of, 223–24
Speeches of, 199–200, 208, 214, 221, 246–47

Alexander II., reforms of, 182, 214, 270–71

Alexander III., policy of, 182

Alexandra, Queen, Russian opinion of, 290

Alliance of October 17th, _see_ Octobrists

“Alliance of the Russian People”—
Demonstration outside the Kremlin, 49
Principles of the, 152–53

Amnesty Question, the, 36, 37—
Current ideas on, 225–26
English opinion on, 262
Kovolievski, Prof., speech on, 215
Nabokov, M., speech on, 213–14

Anikin, M., his speeches, 214, 221

Anti-revolutionaries, attacks on Count Witte, 79

Army, the—
Rostov Regiment, mutiny in the, 50
Spirit in the, 64–65, 72, 209–10, 236, 299
Volunteers, position of, 296–99

Arnold, Matthew, _quoted_, 37;
his books on the Russian index, 92

Art nouveau style, prevalence in Russia, 192, 245

Artistic Theatre, Moscow, Gorki’s play at, 29–30

Assumption, Cathedral of the, Holy Week services, 163–64

Audience, characteristics of a Russian, 198–99

Aulard, Prof., _quoted_, 222

Austin, Alfred, 82

Austrians in St. Petersburg, 286

Autonomists, number in the Duma, 218

Bacon, Lord, 106

Baikal, Lake of, 4

Balfour, Mr., 105, 240, 284

Barine, meaning of term, 295

Bastille, storming of the, Walpole _quoted_, 116–17

Bauman, veterinary surgeon shot, 28;
his funeral, 32–33

Beaconsfield, Lord, 119

Beethoven, _Fidelio_, 40

Bielostok, massacre at, 253

Birch, punishment abolished by Alexander II.

Biron, Duc de, _quoted_, 249

Bismarck, Prince, policy, 41, 102, 111–12

“Black Gang,” or “Black Hundred,” 28, 34–35, 67, 88, 289

Black Sea Fleet, mutiny, 6

“Block,” composition of the, 156

Boswell, _quoted_, 152

Boulygin project, the, 98

“Browning” pistols, use of, 50

Bruno, Giordano, 112

Buckle read in Russia, 93

Bunyan, popularity of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” 148

Bureaucratic system, faults of the, 94–95

Burial of Our Lord, service commemorating, 163–64

Byron read in Russia, 93, 105, 273

Cabman, the, in Moscow, 73, 291

“Cadets,” _see_ Constitutional Democrats

Capital Punishment—
Abolition in Russia, question of, 260–61
Bill passed by the Duma abolishing, 270–72

Carlyle read in Russia, 93

Catherine II., 301

Character, English and Russian compared, 77–78, 223–24

Chartres, Bishop of, _quoted_, 207

Chernaia, village of, 51–55

Chinese—
Hospitality of the, 12–13
Recitation, their manner of; 15–16
Wizard, the professional, 16–17

Chila, description, 5–7

Chouchnin, Admiral, assassination, 301

Climate, Russian, 180–81

Commerce and Industry, party of—
Principles of, 153
Union with the Octobrists, 156

Congress, the Inter-Parliamentary, 262, 273

Conservative Party, the—
Attitude towards the Manifesto of Oct. 17th, 133;
towards the Duma, 222–23;
towards the Government, 275
Dissolution, opinion of the, 282
Position after the Manifesto, 38

Constituent Assembly, the demand for, 42, 76

Constitution, Government’s intentions regarding a, 109, 132

Constitutional Democrats, the—
Characteristics, 194–95
Current ideas on their policy, 94, 226–29, 230–32
Moderates’ charges against, 153–54
Origin of the, 129–30
Policy, 46, 153, 175–76, 181–82, 283–85
Programme, their election, 87, 158–59
Prominent members sketched, 218–220
Strength in the Duma, 156, 158–59, 218
Tiers-État compared with the, 205–7

“Controller” of a train, his duties, 5

Convicts, Russian, treatment of, 24, 26

_Cornhill Magazine_ sold in Moscow, 160

Cossacks, the—
Attitude towards the “soldiers,” 12
Opinion of a Cossack regarding, 298
People, treatment of, 28–29, 33, 68–69

Council of Empire, charges against the Duma, 197

Crown, misunderstanding between the Duma and the, 278–79

Dante, _quoted_, 19

Danton, _quoted_, 249

De Witt, 112

Decembrists of 1825, 82

“Declaration of the Rights of Man,” 107

Delegate, the election of a, 154–56

Demchinsky, Boris Nikolaievitch, 10

Democratic Reform, the Party of, Policy, 220

Dolgoroukoff, Prince, 130, 220

Dostoievski, 18, 89—
Anniversary celebrations, 121
Genius of 122–27,
“Letters from a Dead House,” popularity of, 149–50
Peasants’ opinion of his books, 264

Doyle, Conan, read in Russian, 18

Dresden Hôtel, Moscow, 188

Drunkenness in Russia, 7

Du Maurier, _quoted_, 32

Dubassoff, Admiral, addresses the crowd, 49;
charges against, 68, 86

Duma, the—
Capital punishment abolished, 270–72
Censure, vote of, passed, 215
Composition, 218–24
Concession, the, of Aug. 6th, 98
Current ideas regarding the, 225–32, 299–300
Dissolution, 275–81;
ex-members’ appeal to the country, 287
Emperor’s refusal to receive President, 207–9
General desire for, 88
Government’s attitude towards, 221, 234, 259
Loan Question, the, 174–77
Opening of the, 191–201
Orderliness of the, 198–99, 203
Prime Minister’s Address, 212–13
Prognostications regarding, 153, 156–58, 189–90
Speech of a peasant, 215–17;
of Prince Urussoff, 250–57

Durnovo, M.—
Policy, 95, 132, 136
Resignation, 174, 184

Easter in Moscow, 162–69

Education, faults of English, 92–93,
_see also_ Schools

Eight-hours’ day question, 87–88

Ekaterinoslav Regiment, the, 165

Elections, results of the, 156

Electorate Law, news of the, brought to Moscow, 61–62

Elizabeth, Empress, capital punishment abolished by, 260, 270

Emigration suggested as solution to agrarian question, 181–83

England—
Attitude of average Russian towards, 93
Convention in, Russian opinion regarding, 103–6, 240–42, 266
Opinion in, on Russian questions, 259–62

Ermitage Restaurant, proprietor shot, 67

Ermolov, police officer, his crime, 78;
his punishment, 261

Esthonians, number of, in the Duma, 218

Expropriation of private property proposed, 179–80;
of State Lands, 180–81

Extreme Conservatives, reception of the October Manifesto, 135

Extreme Radicals, reception of the October Manifesto, 135

Fairs—
Moscow town, 169
Palm Sunday at Red Place, 159–61

Fasts, Holy Week, observance of, 163–64

Feodor, peasant, his opinions, 290–95

Fielder’s School, the revolutionary meeting in, 56;
condition after the bombardment, 66

Finland, political meeting at Terrioki, 243–49

Fontanka, the printing-press discovered at, 254–56

Foreign intervention after dissolution of the Duma, 286, 288–89

Franchise Law, nature of the, 154–56

Freedom of Speech granted by October Manifesto, 98–99

French Revolution—
Russian compared with, 116–18, 174, 205–7, 210
Walpole, Horace, _quoted_, 116–18

Funeral in Moscow, description of a, 32–33

Gapon, 248

“Gasudar,” the, 77

Germany, attitude towards the Polish question, 41–42

Gipsies, Russian, 297

Gladstone, 106

Glinka, M., doctor, 14, 17

Godziadan, the military station at, 10

Gogol, his unpopularity, 149

Gonchuling, description, 9–10;
tram-railway from, 20

Gorki, Maxim, “Children of the Sun,” description, 29–30

“Gospodi, Gospodi,” 166

Government, the—
Attitude towards the Duma, 221, 234, 258–59
Employment of the Press, 234–35, 250–56
Oppression of lower classes, 296
Policy of “Proisvol,” 86–87, 94–96
Resignation of the Ministry, July, 1906, 274

Governor-General, Moscow, the attack on, 188–89

Governors, Provincial, empowered to “outlaw” province, 99

Habeas Corpus, the Russian, 224

Haggard, Rider, read in Russian, 18

Hall of the Duma, description, 191–92

Hardie, Mr. Keir, 284

Haymaking near Moscow, 291–97

Hertzenstein, M., account of, 220;
assassination of, 301

Herzen the Socialist, 160

Heyden, Count, politics, 218

Hliebnikov, M., Cossack officer, 14, 18, 122

Holy Shroud, the Service of the, 163

Holy Week in Moscow, 162–63

Homel, the January massacre at, 253

Hooliganism in St. Petersburg, 40;
in Moscow, 49–50;
_see also_ Black Gang

Hôtel de France, Moscow, 28;
the Métropole windows broken by the Black Gang, 35;
the National, 35;
the Dresden, Moscow, 73

Hugo, Victor, _quoted_, 118

Hung-Hutzes, depredations by the, 20

Ibsen, 103

Ignatieff, Count, estates of, 236

“Intellectuals,” the, character of, 43;
wholesale arrests of the 132

Intelligenzia, the—
As a Political Party, 130
Revolutionary sympathies of the, 77, 81–83, 90–91
Treatment by the Government, 91–96

Irkutsk, 3

Ivan Veliki, Cathedral of, 164

Jacobins, the, 88

Jen-tzen-tung, description, 11–12, 15–16, 20

Jerome, Jerome K., read in Russian, 18

Jewish massacres, the, 250–57, 300–301

Jilkin, M., 245

John, Father, of Kronstadt, 52

Johnson, Dr., _quoted_, 114, 148, 152

Junius, _quoted_, 186–88

Karakosof, execution of, 271

Karavaieff, B. V. Kousmin, 220

Kareev, N., 220

K. D. Club, the, deserted on dissolution of the Duma, 281

Kharbin, description of, 8–9

Khilkoff, his portrait, 22

Kiev, massacres at, 253, 255

Kipling, Rudyard, read in Russian, 18;
the “Jungle Book,” 210–11

Kizlitzki, M., of the battery, 14, 17–18

_Kniaz Potemkin_, the mutiny on the, 98

Knout, use of the, abolished, 270

Kokoshkin, F. F., joins the Zemstvoists, 130;
speeches of, 219

Kologrivo, village of, 270

Komissaroff, officer, and the printing-press, 254–55

_Koulich_, 165, 166

Kouropatkin, 10, 220

Kouznetsk, town of, effect of railway strike at, 21–25

Kouznetski Most, the, Moscow, 59

Kovolievski, Prof.—
Expropriation, his speech on, 214–15
Inter-Parliamentary Congress, to go to, 272
Motion of, 192–94
Style of oratory, 199, 208–9, 220

_Kreekòons_, arrests of the, 154

Kremlin, the—
Demonstrations on the Emperor’s birthday, 49
Easter Services in, 162–69

Kronstadt, the mutiny at, 44, 98

La Fontaine, _quoted_, 297–98

Labour Party, composition in the Duma, 218, 221

Labour Party Club, 281

Land, _see_ Agrarian question

Landlords, condition subsequent to the land sales, 178–79

Landscape, a typical Russian, 144

Lansdowne, Lord, 284

Law and Order, party of, 153

“League of Liberation” formed by the Zemstvoists, 129

Lee, Vernon, 161

Leroy-Beaulieu, M., _quoted_, 270–71;
his book on Russia, 289

Letts, number of, in the Duma, 218

Li, Chinese measure, 12

Libau, the mutiny at, 98

Liberal Party, the—
Attitude towards the War, 128
Demands of, 36–38, 42
Manifesto, reception of the, 35, 133–34
Views of, 107–116, 303–7

_Liberté de Mœurs_, 234, 241

Liberty of the Press, _see_ Press

Liberty, personal, in Russia, 242–45

Linievitch, 9

Ling Po, 15

Literature, amount of translations from English, read, 18–19

Lithuanians, number of, in the Duma, 218

Little Russians, 24

Loan, the Foreign—
Party opinions regarding, 174–77
Social Revolutionaries, attitude of the, 169–70

Lobkovski Pereoolok, the, Moscow, 56

London, a Russian’s opinion of, 266

Losev, peasant, his speech in the Duma, 215–17

Louis XVI., Prof. Aulard on, _quoted_, 222;
his policy, 258–59

Lvov, M., joins the Zemstvoists, 130, 220

Mæterlinck, 103

Manchuria, outbreak of typhus, 4;
chaos at the Railway Station, 7–8

Manège, the, Easter at, 165

Manifesto of December, 1904, 98

Manifesto of October 17, 1905—
Moscow, effect of publication in, 27–28, 31–38
Nature of the, 132–33
Party opinion on, 134–35
St. Petersburg, effect of publication in, 107–8
Trepoff, attitude towards the, 39

Manifestoes, party, after dissolution of the Duma, 289;
the two, of February 18, 1905, 98

Marlborough, Duke of, 106

“Marseillaise,” singing of the, 244

Martial Law enforced in Poland, 42, 99

Massacres, the, Prince Urussoff’s speech on the causes, 250–57

Maundy Thursday services, 163

Maupassant, Guy de, 264

Metrofan, porter, disappearance, 67;
death, 73

Métropole Restaurant, Moscow, 31

Milioukov, Prof., forms the “Union of Unions,” 130
Leader of Cadet party, 153, 218–19
Policy of, 208–9

Mill, John S., read in Russia, 93

Milton read in Russia, 93;
_Paradise Lost_, 147–50

Mirabeau, Walpole’s criticism, 117–18, 120;
_quoted_, 199–200, 210

Mirsky, Prince, his reforms, 98, 114, 119, 120

Moderates, the—
Criticism of Count Witte, 46
Number of, in the Duma, 218
Principles, 80

Monarchical party, the, 152

Monarchy, attitude of the political parties towards the, 152, 153

Mongols, manner of riding, 13–14;
dress of, in Jen-tzen-tung, 16

Morley, John, read in Russia, 93

_Morning Post_ and the Censorship, 289

Morshansk, 151

Moscow—
After the Rising, 63–74;
after the dissolution of the Duma, 288
Christmas Day 1905 in, 59–61
Easter in, 162–69
Election results in, 154, 156–57
Hooliganism in, 49–50
Manifesto of October, effects of publication, 27–28, 31–38
Political parties in, 128–36
Strikes in, effects of, 50–62, 99
Suburbs of, 289–90
Town fairs of, 169
Witchcraft in, 292

_Moscow Gazette_, connection with the massacres, 253

Moscow River, the, 293

_Moujik_, the term, 298

Mukden, battle of, 9

Murders, political, prevalence of, 272

Muromtzeff, C. A., President of the Duma, 192, 196, 219

Musalmans, number of, in the Duma, 218

Mwilnikov, the, Moscow, 56

Nabokov, M., his speech replying to the Prime Minister, 213–14;
his style of oratory, 219

Name-day, observance of the, 265

Napoleon, his policy, 111

Nationalists, the reactionary, criticism of Count Witte, 46

Nazarenko, the peasant, sketch, 263–64, 273, 279;
returns to Finland, 281

Nebogatoff, Admiral, 291

Necker, M., Walpole’s criticism, 117

Neglinii Proiesd, the, Moscow, 59, 68

Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg, 281

New Year, Russian observance of the feast, 82–83, 89

Nicholas II.—
Absolute authority preserved by the October Manifesto, 132–33
Audience refused to President of Duma, 207–9
Knout, use of, abolished by, 270
Reign of, sketched, 172–73
Zemstvo deputation to, 98

Nikolaiev, Railway Station seized by the strikers, 57;
scene on Christmas Day, 1905, 60

Nikolaievitch, Dimitri, on the political outlook, 171–77

“Norodniu Dom,” the, St. Petersburg, 265–67

_Novoe Vremya_, the, 214

Octobrists, the—
Attitude towards the Manifesto, 108
Dissolution of the Duma, opinion regarding, 282
Election results, reception of the, 157
Moderate principles of the, 153, 156

“Old Souls,” arrangement for the purchase of land, 145–46

Opéra Bouffe, the, 44

Orleans, Duke of, Walpole’s criticism, 117

Ostrovski, Mr., 9

Ouida, 138

Oushitai, Chinese town, 12, 20

Palm Sunday in Moscow, 159–61

Paris, the street fighting of ’32, &c., 57, 69;
a Russian’s opinion of, 266

_Pascha_, 165, 166

Peace negotiations, the, popular opinion regarding, 1–3, 8–10, 15, 16

Peasants, the—
Character, 65, 143–44, 181–82
Condition, 1905–6, 88–89
Duma, opinion of the, 196–99;
their behaviour in the, 203–4, 209–10;
their politics in the, 221
Education and literary taste of, 147–51
Emigration, the question of, 181–83
Franchise, method of using the, 154
Land purchase, view of the, 145–47
Poverty of, 179–80
Speech of a peasant in the Duma, 215–17

People, the Russian, description, 141–44

Peter the Great, his policy, 229

Peterhof, suburb of, description, 204–5

Petrajitski, L., 220

Petruckin, peasant, his opinions, 267–270, 273, 274

Petrunkevitch, I., leader of the Zemstvoists, 129;
Cadet, 153;
his style, 219

Piensa, railway strike at, 25

Plehve, M., public opinion regarding, 47;
his _régime_, 119, 182

Poland—
Constitutional liberties delayed, 40–42
Duma, number of Poles in the, 218
Local autonomy for, desired by Cadets, 153
Martial law declared, 99

Police—
Abolition of the secret force, 36
Cadets opposed by, 157
December rising, non-preparedness for, 131–32
Massacres, connection with the, 250–56
Methods of the, 170, 201, 226
Shooting of, 78–79, 207, 261
Unlimited powers of the, 94
Withdrawal and restoration of, in Moscow, 28, 35

Politeness, Russian, 4–5

Political Parties, formation of the, 128–29, 152

Postal Strike, the, effects of, 44, 99;
arrest of the officials, 99

Presnaya, destruction of the factory at, 85

Press, the—
Censorship of, 95;
renewed after dissolution of the Duma, 289
English, accusations against, 79
Freedom of, 119
Massacres, connection with the, 250–56
Ministerial use of the, 234–35
Radical, attacks on Count Witte, 42–43;
on the Government, 119
Revolutionary spirit of, 237

Priests, a peasant’s opinion of the, 300–301

Printing-Press, discovery of the, 254–56

Prisoners, political, amnesty to, _see_ Amnesty question;
deportment of, 6

Professional classes, parties formed among the, 130;
_see also_ Intelligenzia

Public meetings, law forbidding, August 6, 1905, 98;
allowed by October Manifesto, 98–99

Public opinion on the situation, Dec., 1905,47–59

_Punch_ sold in Moscow, 160

Railway travelling in Russia, 4, 8, 243, 296–97

_Ravnienie_ or “levelling,” peasants’ view of, 145

Red Cross—
Abuse of the, 67
Encampments near Jen-tzen-tung, 12

Red Place, Palm Sunday fair at, 159–61

_Reformkleider_, use of, 245

Religion of the peasants, 268–69

Renan, _quoted_, 84–85, 103

_Retch_, the, 284

Revolution of December, 1905—
Account, 65–69
Causes, 69–74
Effect on nature of the people, 142–43

Revolutionaries, the—
Criticism of Count Witte, 46
Demands of, 75–77
Tactics of, 65–66

Riansk, Railway strike at, 25;
scene at the station, 60

Riazan, Railway strike at, 25–26

Riding school, Moscow, Cossacks fire from, 33

Right and Order, Alliance of, 100, 156

Robespierre, speech of, 199–200;
Danton’s criticism, 249

Rodichev, M.—
Cadet leader, 153
Speeches of, 199, 214
Zemstvoist leader, 129, 219–20

_Rossia_, the, 276, 288

Rostov Regiment, mutiny in the, 50

Ruskin read in Russia, 93

_Russ_, the, criticism of C. Witte, 117

_Russkie Viedomosti_, 43;
suppression of the, 87

_Russkoe Slovo_, offices burnt, 66;
attack on Count Witte, 79

St. Petersburg—
Current ideas in, Feb., 1906, 100–120
Election results in, 154, 156
Emperor’s birthday, demonstrations, 49
Foreign intervention, the, 286
Hooliganism in, 49–50
Strikes in, 39–44, 99

Samara, 21, 22

Saratov, agrarian agitation in, 99

Sardou, _quoted_, 138

Saviour, Church of the, 165–66

Schipov, Mr., endeavours to unite the Zemstva, 129–30;
his politics, 218;
formation of new ministry entrusted to, 274

Schools, village evening, 53–55;
village day, 150;
instituted by the Zemstvoists, 183

Schumann, Clara, 164

Serfs, results of emancipation, 178

Sevastopol, the mutiny in, 99

Shakespeare read in Russia, 93

Shaw, Bernard, 105

Shelley read in Russia, 93, 105, 267, 273

Siberia, suggested emigration to, 181

Sieyès, _quoted_, 206

Singing, Russian peasant, 294

Sipiagin, M., case of, 185

Sisran, the station at, 21

_Skashi_ or tellers of tales, 149

“Skitaletzt,” his style, 82

Social Democrats, the—
Aladin’s speech, criticism of, 248
Political parties, position among, 154
Principles, 46

Social Revolutionaries, the—
Elections, abstain from action in, 157
Political parties, position among, 154
Principles, 46

Socialist Club, the, 281

Socialists, 154, 156

“Societies,” arrangement by, for the purchase of land, 145–46

Soldiers’ Hospital, Moscow, 72–73, 89, 166–69

Sortes Virgilianæ, 72

Sosnofka, 137–51

South African War, Russian opinions, 101–2

Spencer, Herbert, read in Russia, 93, 264, 267

Stachovitch, M. A., politics of, 130, 218

Stanislavoshi, M., 29

State Lands, expropriation proposed, 180–81

States-General, opening compared with opening of Duma, 205–7

Stevenson read in Chinese, 18

Stolypin, M., policy, 288–89

Strikes, the—
General, in Moscow, Dec., 1905, 50–62
Guerilla tactics of the Strikers, 57
Postal, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 44, 99
Railway, warnings of, 5–7;
October incidents at Kouznetsk, 21–25;
behaviour of the strikers, 25;
effect in Moscow, 31–38

Struve, M., 153

Students, the, behaviour on publication of Manifesto, 27–28;
treatment by the Black Gang, 34–35

Suffrage, universal, the demand for, 42, 87;
question of women’s, 158

Tacitus _quoted_, 95

Tagantzef, M., comments on capital punishment, 271

_Tarantass_, the, 139

Ta-shi-chiæ, battle of, incident, 17–18

Tauris Palace, description, 191

Tea-shops, Russian, 293

Telegrams, posting of, in the Duma, 204

Terrioki in Finland, political meeting at, 243–49

Tiers-Etat, Cadets compared with the, 205–7

Tolstoi, treatment by the Government, 105;
compared with Dostoievski, 126;
a peasant’s opinion of, 263–64

Toula, 21

Transbaikalia, 6

Trepoff, General—
Character, 39–40
_Dictatorship_ of, 98
Radical Press and, 43
Resignation demanded, 36

Troubetzkoi, Prince S. N., 128

Turkestan, suggested emigration to, 181

Twain, Mark, read in Russian, 18

Typhus, outbreak in Manchuria, 4

Ukraine, number of, in the Duma, 218

Ukase of December, 1904, 98

“Union of Unions,” formation of the, 130

Unions, political, formation of, November, 1904, 130

Urussoff, Prince, 220;
his speech in the Duma, 250–57

Verne, Jules, _Michel Strogoff_, 139

Village, description of a Russian, 140–41

Vilna, the massacre at, 253

Vinaver, M., 220

Volkonsky, Prince, politics, 218

Voting, orderliness during the, 159

Walpole, Horace, _quoted_, 116–18, 120

War, the, current ideas regarding, 101–2

Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, read in Russian, 18

Wells, H. G., _Kipps_, 105;
_Food of the Gods_, 113

_Windt_, the game of, 228

Witchcraft, employment of, 292

Witte, Count—
Financial policy, 177
Greatness of his task, 185–86
Komissaroff, his interview with, 255
Manifesto of October 17th, publication, 107
Party criticism of, 46–47, 79–81, 134–36
Power of, 43–44
Public opinion regarding, 17, 47–48, 184–85
Radical press, opposition, 42
Resignation, 175, 184
_Russ_, criticism of the, 117
Zemstva, their address to, 99;
their attitude towards, 110–13

Zemstva, the—
Coalition of, 128–30
Emperor, the deputation to, 98, 128
Leaders refuse Cabinet posts, 135–36
Liberal demand regarding Ministers, 36
Schools instituted by the, 183
Witte, attitude towards, 99, 103, 110–13

Zemstvo Constitutionalists, formation of the, 129–30

Zhilkin, his style, 221

Zola, M., compared with Dostoievski, 126;
read in Russia, 264

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