. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. exert a beneficial influencein this matter, and much of the denunciation levelled at it is,in my opinion, vast void spacesof rural Russia, by theway, may be imaginedfrom the fact thatevery train carries aladder and tools andelectrical appliancesfor cutting the tele-graph wire and callingfor assistance in caseof accident or break-down. This happenedto me on one occa-sion. The lines are, ofcourse, nearly all sin-gle ones, so there is noopportunity to stop a train g
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. exert a beneficial influencein this matter, and much of the denunciation levelled at it is,in my opinion, vast void spacesof rural Russia, by theway, may be imaginedfrom the fact thatevery train carries aladder and tools andelectrical appliancesfor cutting the tele-graph wire and callingfor assistance in caseof accident or break-down. This happenedto me on one occa-sion. The lines are, ofcourse, nearly all sin-gle ones, so there is noopportunity to stop a train going in the opposite winter successive trains were blocked by snow near Odessa,until seyeral thousand passengers were snowed-up,»almost with-out food, for three days, suffering terribly, and only released andprovisioned at last by the efforts of two regiments and a hastilyorganised service of sledges. Between the towns in Russia,even on the main lines of railway, you are in a country almostuntouched by the conveniences of modern civiHsation. Personally, the Russian common people are attractive. They. Broken Down on the Steppe—Tapping theTelegraph for Help. 44 ALL THE RUSSIAS are simple, good-natured, kindly, very ready to be pleased or tolaugh. Nobody can fail to like them. Their poverty does notprevent them from being happy in their melancholy Slav live in dirt and are inexpressibly verminous, yet theyluxuriate regularly in the village vapour baths. Black rye bread,cabbage, buckwheat, mushrooms, eggs are the chief items of themujiks fare. He is a fluent liar, generally from amiable is religious in every fibre of his being, but his religion is whollyof the letter; he is convinced that his priest has the evil eye; hegets wildly drunk at Easter for joy to think that Christ is risen,and at other times for no reason at all. The soldier, typical ofhis class, is a great child, and is treated as such. Nothing is leftto his intelligence or his
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