. In the land of Tolstoi; experiences of famine and misrule in Russia . the childs parents or guardians are permittedto pay for it. The curriculum of the district schools themselves, arrangedby the Holy Synod, and under the immediate supervision of thepriest, is as follows :— First Year.—Twelve prayers in Old Slavonic learnt by rote. Second Year.—The Russian version of these prayers, also byrote. Third Year.—Same as second year, with a little mentalarithmetic on the four rules. A Policy of Death. 117 To teach tlie children to read forms no necessary part of thesyllabus, and, as a matter of fac
. In the land of Tolstoi; experiences of famine and misrule in Russia . the childs parents or guardians are permittedto pay for it. The curriculum of the district schools themselves, arrangedby the Holy Synod, and under the immediate supervision of thepriest, is as follows :— First Year.—Twelve prayers in Old Slavonic learnt by rote. Second Year.—The Russian version of these prayers, also byrote. Third Year.—Same as second year, with a little mentalarithmetic on the four rules. A Policy of Death. 117 To teach tlie children to read forms no necessary part of thesyllabus, and, as a matter of fact, the majority of children passthrough these three years and are thoroughly illiterate at theend. It is only those children who push themselves forward, as itwere, who get a knowledge of reading outside the regular former schools used also to have libraries of serviceablebooks, which the children were allowed to take home withthem, but now the only books allowed are such as belong to theOrthodox training, liturgies, legends of saints, &c. When. SCHOOL CHILDREN AT PLAT. the schools are closed, the children soon forget the little know-ledge they have acquired. They take their share of the hardwork in the fields, &c., and have no books at home by whichto keep up their scholarship (?). Nor are private schools allowed to supply the deficiencies ofthe national system. A number of these had been establishedby private beneficence in Siberia—in Tomsk, Omsk, Krasnoy-arsk, Irkutsk, and Jenesseisk—and were making good were delared by a prominent Government newspaper[Graschdanin, Oct. 9, 1889) to be of revolutionary tendencies ; 118 A Policy of Death. the local authorities received the hint to hamper them as aspossible, with the result that they have now come under the con-trol of the purest obscurantism. This device is a favourite onewith the Government, and most effectual. A decree forbiddingthe establishment of any private school without speci
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