Provincial Russia . ough the Fast. Then at the Eastermidnight service, when the priest proclaims, Christos vosJxTess—that is to say, Christ hasrisen—you must whisper after the pope, 1 havecheese, whereupon all the wizards in the churchwill come up and ask for it. Only it is not wise togive it to them. Conditions are changing fast in White by year decreases the number of those old-fashioned villages, where there is neither samovarnor kerosine, and where no one can read or people are becoming conscious of the needand benefits of education. And though there isstill much igno
Provincial Russia . ough the Fast. Then at the Eastermidnight service, when the priest proclaims, Christos vosJxTess—that is to say, Christ hasrisen—you must whisper after the pope, 1 havecheese, whereupon all the wizards in the churchwill come up and ask for it. Only it is not wise togive it to them. Conditions are changing fast in White by year decreases the number of those old-fashioned villages, where there is neither samovarnor kerosine, and where no one can read or people are becoming conscious of the needand benefits of education. And though there isstill much ignorance and wretchedness, one may feelassured that as the draining of the marshes hasexpelled those agues and fevers which made theWhite Russian prematurely an old man, so theconstant multiplication of schools will effect, inthe not distant future, a steady progress inmaterial and intellectual development, and enablethis part of the Russian race to occupy a higherplace than it does at present in the national VIII LITTLE RUSSIA To the south and south-east of White Russia hethe three Governments of Tchernigoif, Poltava,and KharkofF, which constitute the romantic andfascinating country known as Little Russia, acountry where, as Count Aleksai Tolstoy wrotewith glowing enthusiasm, everything breathes ofplenty, where the rivers flow brighter than silver,where the gentle steppe wind rustles the grasses,and the farm buildings are lost in cherry name originated in the fourteenth century todistinguish the land round KiefF from the GreatRussia, whose centre was INloscow. The othertitle given to this district, the Ukraine, meansproperly the border, or the frontier, a term onemight have expected to accompany the expansionof Russian territory in every direction, but as-sociated once for all with Little Russia, which wasfor centuries the border with Poland. The popu-lation of the three Governments numbers nearly 121 16 122 PROVIxNCIAL RUSSIA eight millions, and the density
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