. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. Russia. With excellent restaurantsand bands and wine there was sparkle about mid-night. But there is lowered gaiety—not all due to thewar—when champagne has to be replaced by stuffwhich is like ginger-pop from which the cork escapedyesterday. Philaret (Theodore Nikitich Romanov), Metro-polite of Moscow. He exerted a great influenceupon the domestic affairs of Russia during theperiod of trouble (1605-1682). Being the MostHoly Patriarch, Theodore became theoreticallya c
. Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day. Russia. With excellent restaurantsand bands and wine there was sparkle about mid-night. But there is lowered gaiety—not all due to thewar—when champagne has to be replaced by stuffwhich is like ginger-pop from which the cork escapedyesterday. Philaret (Theodore Nikitich Romanov), Metro-polite of Moscow. He exerted a great influenceupon the domestic affairs of Russia during theperiod of trouble (1605-1682). Being the MostHoly Patriarch, Theodore became theoreticallya co-regent with his son Michael who then suc-ceeded to the throne at the age of sixteen. As anauthor he compiled catechism, religious books, andprayers. His domestic services were: He induced peasants to stay on the soilinstead of migrating to the steppes,where they became freebooters insteadof taxpayers. He advocated more equitable (propor-tional) taxation. He furnished a nucleus for the Patri-archal Library and was a founder of Theological Seminaries. 0 With foreign officers he helped to or-ganize the Muscovite Philaret. Appendix EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF HON. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG Commissioner to Russia to distribute the cargo of S. , March, 1892. THE first impression one gets of Russia is that ofvastness. The country at the frontier reminds one ofsome of our great prairie States, slightly rolling andwithout limit or boundary. The train, drawn by anengine larger than those in England or Germany andfed with birch or pine wood, slowly winds its waythrough the snow-clad country, past human abodesthat would seem strange and poor even to the earliestpioneers of our Western States. Low buildings, withstraw roofs, no chimneys, and one or two small windowsare the characteristics of these villages and the people we can as yet see and judge but is cold and disagreeable and only those who arecompelled are out of doors. Those we do see are hardlyprepo
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