Russia : its history and condition to 1877 . hem asanything more than the personal opinions of anunbiassed investigator. One word as to the future. I think that thereis far less ground for despondency than is com-monly supposed. Russia is at present undergoinga great economic revolution, and is suffering fromthose evils which necessarily attend a period oftransition. From the bold and, on the whole, suc-cessful way in which she solved the difficult problemof serf emancipation, we may confidently assumethat she will in due time successfully overcome theagrarian difficulties that still lie befor
Russia : its history and condition to 1877 . hem asanything more than the personal opinions of anunbiassed investigator. One word as to the future. I think that thereis far less ground for despondency than is com-monly supposed. Russia is at present undergoinga great economic revolution, and is suffering fromthose evils which necessarily attend a period oftransition. From the bold and, on the whole, suc-cessful way in which she solved the difficult problemof serf emancipation, we may confidently assumethat she will in due time successfully overcome theagrarian difficulties that still lie before her. 334 BINDING SECT. AUG 3 11981 / 10 NOT REMOVE?; FROM THIS POCKET \ RONTO LIBRARY \ m Wallace, (Sir) Donald Mackenzie 7.: Russia 1910 1. THE • PMMPTMN • PHESS [,„]NUBWOOD . MASS • U • S • A CONTENTS [APTEB nan Editorial Note ix I Social Classes 1 II Chubch and State 8 III Among the Heretics 29 IV The Dissenters 53 V The Pastoral Tribes of the Steppe . 83 VI The Tartar Domination 108 Vn The Cossacks 120 Vni Foreign Colonies on the Steppe 137 IX St. Petersbxirg and Eitropean Influence . 152 X The Serfs 188 XI The Emancipation of the Serfs .... 226 XII Consequences of the Emancipation . 265 XIII Consequences of the Emancipation . 298 ILLUSTRATIONS Page Two Peasant Women Frontispiece The Kremlin from the Bridge Maskawentz, Moscow 32 Church of the Assumption, Moscow 64 Triumphal Arch, Moscow 160 Statue of the Tsar Nicholas 192 Panoramic View of Moscow 224 vu ^ ?^<^i^ r? la yi ji -r EDITORIAL NOTE SOME slight rearrangement of the great seriesof tableaux in which Sir Donald MackenzieWallace displayed the history and condition ofRussia and its people has seemed to be desirable in thispresentation of th
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