. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across tlieir national characteristics. The population of Russia is about one hundred millions, he contin-ued, and it is spread over an area of nearly if not quite seven millionsquare miles of land. Russia occupies about one-eighth of the land sur-face of the globe, but is very thinly inhabited. European Russia, in-cluding Poland, Finland, and other provinces, covers two millions of squaremiles, while Siberia, or European Asia, extends over at lea
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across tlieir national characteristics. The population of Russia is about one hundred millions, he contin-ued, and it is spread over an area of nearly if not quite seven millionsquare miles of land. Russia occupies about one-eighth of the land sur-face of the globe, but is very thinly inhabited. European Russia, in-cluding Poland, Finland, and other provinces, covers two millions of squaremiles, while Siberia, or European Asia, extends over at least five does not include the disputed territory of the last few years in Cen-tral Asia. It is pretty certain to come under the rule of the Emperor, andwill add another half-million, if not more, to his dominions. The inhabitants are very unevenly distributed, as they average one 04 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. hundred and twenty-seven to the square mile in Poland, and less than twoto the mile in Asiatic Russia. About sixty millions belong to the Slavicrace, which includes the Russians and Poles, and also a few colonies of. FINLAND PEASANTS IN HOLIDAY COSTUME. Servians and Bulgarians, which amount in all to less than one hundredthousand. The identity of the Servians and Bulgarians with the Slavicrace has been the excuse, if not the reason, for the repeated attempts ofRussia to unite Servia, Bulgaria, and the other Dauubian principalities PAN-SLAVIC UNION. 95 with the grand Empire. Tlie union of the Slavic people under one gov-ernment has been the dream of the emperors of Russia for a long time,and what could be a better union, they argue, than their absorption intoour own nation V Fred asked who the Slavs were, and whence they came. According to those who have studied the subject, Doctor Bronsonanswered, they were anciently known as Scythians or Sarmatians. Their
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