Siberia and the exile system . re-sume, was waiting for the expurgatedproofs of his local and telegraphic newsto get back from Moscow ; and it proba-bly did not occur to him to fill up hisreading columns with a few of the titlesof the Autocrat of all the Russias, or achapter or two of genealogies from theOld Testament. The other newspaper in Ekaterinburgis called The Active Correspondent,but how any correspondent venturesto be active in a country wheremental activity is officially regarded asmore dangerous to the state than moraldepravity, I do not know. I invite theattention of the reader to
Siberia and the exile system . re-sume, was waiting for the expurgatedproofs of his local and telegraphic newsto get back from Moscow ; and it proba-bly did not occur to him to fill up hisreading columns with a few of the titlesof the Autocrat of all the Russias, or achapter or two of genealogies from theOld Testament. The other newspaper in Ekaterinburgis called The Active Correspondent,but how any correspondent venturesto be active in a country wheremental activity is officially regarded asmore dangerous to the state than moraldepravity, I do not know. I invite theattention of the reader to the list ofperiodicals that have been punished orsuppressed on account of their per-nicious activity since the accessionto the throne of Alexander III. It in-cludes every newspaper published inSiberia. See Appendix B. ACllOSS THE SIBERIAN FRONTIER 37 common iu Russia as to justify a traveler in passing themwithout notice. In external appearance Ekaterinburg does not differessentially from the typical Russian town of its liillil There are the same wide, unpaved streets that one seeseverywhere in Russia, the same square log houses withornamented window casings and flatly pyramidal tin roofs,the same high board fences between the scattered dwel- 38 SIBERIA liiigs, the same white-walled churches with coloi-ed oi gildeddomes, and the same f/asfiirnoi dvor or city bazar. In thebazars of these Russian provincial towns you may find, ifyou search diligently, almost evei-ything that the empireproduces, and a great many things that it does not roaming through fjastinnoi dvor of Ekaterinburg a dayor two after our arrival, we happened to get into whatseemed to be a small grocery. The chief clerk or proprie-tor, a bright-faced, intelligent young peasant, answeredgood-humoredly all our questions with regard to his busi-ness and stock in trade, allowed us to taste certain Asiaticcommodities that were new to us, and gave us as muchinformation as he could concerning a lot of R
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