RUSSIA
by Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Copyright 1905
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
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Preface
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER I
TRAVELLING IN RUSSIA
Railways\u2014State Interference\ue000River Communications\ue001Russian "Grand
Tour"\ue002The Volga\ue003Kazan\ue004Zhigulinskiya Gori\ue005Finns and Tartars\ue006The
Don\ue007Difficulties of Navigation\ue008Discomforts\ue009Rats\ue00aHotels and
Their Peculiar Customs\ue00bRoads\ue00cHibernian Phraseology
Explained\ue00dBridges\ue00ePosting\ue00fA Tarantass\ue010Requisites for
Travelling\ue011Travelling in Winter\ue012Frostbitten\ue013Disagreeable
Episodes\ue014Scene at a Post-Station.
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER II
IN THE NORTHERN FORESTS
Bird's-eye View of Russia\ue015The Northern Forests\ue016Purpose of
my Journey\ue017Negotiations\ue018The Road\ue019A Village\ue01aA Peasant's
House\ue01bVapour-Baths\ue01cCurious Custom\ue01dArrival.
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER III
VOLUNTARY EXILE
Ivanofka\ue01eHistory of the Place—The Steward of the Estate—Slav and
Teutonic Natures—A German's View of the Emancipation—Justices of the
Peace—New School of Morals—The Russian Language—Linguistic
Talent of
the Russians—My Teacher—A Big Dose of Current History.
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER IV
THE VILLAGE PRIEST
Priests' Names—Clerical Marriages—The White and the Black
Clergy—Why
the People do not Respect the Parish Priests—History of the White
Clergy—The Parish Priest and the Protestant Pastor—In What Sense
the Russian People are Religious—Icons—The Clergy and Popular
Education—Ecclesiastical Reform—Premonitory Symptoms of
Change—Two
Typical Specimens of the Parochial Clergy of the Present Day.
CHAPTER V
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CHAPTER V
A MEDICAL CONSULTATION
Unexpected Illness—A Village Doctor—Siberian Plague—My
Studies—Russian Historians—A Russian Imitator of Dickens—A
ci-devant
Domestic Serf—Medicine and Witchcraft—A Remnant of
Paganism—Credulity
of the Peasantry—Absurd Rumours—A Mysterious Visit from St.
Barbara—Cholera on Board a Steamer—Hospitals—Lunatic
Asylums—Amongst
Maniacs.
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VI
A PEASANT FAMILY OF THE OLD TYPE
Ivan Petroff—His Past Life—Co-operative Associations—Constitution of
a Peasant's Household—Predominance of Economic Conceptions over those
of Blood-relationship—Peasant Marriages—Advantages of Living in Large
Families—Its Defects—Family Disruptions and their Consequences.
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VII
THE PEASANTRY OF THE NORTH
Communal Land—System of Agriculture—Parish
Fetes—Fasting—Winter
Occupations—Yearly Migrations—Domestic Industries—Influence
of Capital and Wholesale Enterprise—The State
Peasants—Serf-dues—Buckle's "History of Civilisation"—A precocious
Yamstchik—"People Who Play Pranks"—A Midnight Alarm—The Far
North.
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER VIII
THE MIR, OR VILLAGE COMMUNITY
Social and Political Importance of the Mir—The Mir and the Family
Compared—Theory of the Communal System—Practical Deviations from the
Theory—The Mir a Good Specimen of Constitutional Government of the
Extreme Democratic Type—The Village Assembly—Female
Members—The
Elections—Distribution of the Communal Land.
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER IX
HOW THE COMMUNE HAS BEEN PRESERVED, AND WHAT IT IS TO EFFECT IN
THE
FUTURE
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