. 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 LEARNING TO MEATE. extent, for rich people to educate their children at home. Every noble-man who could afford it had a tutor for his boys and a governess for hisgirls. There is no country where tutors and governesses were more cer- TUTORS AND GOVERNESSES. 153 tain of eiiiployinent than in Russia, and I have the assurances from them,a hundred times repeated, that thej were better treated here than any-where else. A tutor or governess is ahn
. 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 LEARNING TO MEATE. extent, for rich people to educate their children at home. Every noble-man who could afford it had a tutor for his boys and a governess for hisgirls. There is no country where tutors and governesses were more cer- TUTORS AND GOVERNESSES. 153 tain of eiiiployinent than in Russia, and I have the assurances from them,a hundred times repeated, that thej were better treated here than any-where else. A tutor or governess is ahnost invariably made a member ofthe family, sits with them at table, is presented to visitors, forms a part oftheir social circle, and is made to feel thoroughly at home. Governessesare usually Englishor French, while tu-tors are generallyFrench or education ofthese home taughtchildren beg-ins at a. MINERAL CABINKT IN THE UNIVEUSITY. very earlj^ age, and they naturally speak with fluency the language oftheir instructors; hence it follows that the Russians of the higher classeshave, justly, the reputation of being the best linguists of Europe. As the professor paused, Frank remarked that he had observed howalmost every Russian officer spoke French or German, and many of themspoke French, German, and English. French seems to be almost uni-versal among them, he added, at least as far as I have been able tolearn. That is true, said the professor, and there are many Russians whospeak French better than they do their own language. With Frenchnurses in their infancy, French governesses or tutors as their years ad-vance, and with their parents speaking French, it is not to be wondered at. The system of home education discouraged the education of theschools among the nobility, and it was only during the reign of Nicholas 154 THE BOY TEAAELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. that a change was made
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