. In the land of Tolstoi; experiences of famine and misrule in Russia . A GKOUP OF TATARS. Mordvinians and Tcheremiss are of Finnish race, inhabitingthe forest regions of Kasan and its neighbouring districts,which have been their home as far back as history orthodox, they are at heart pagan, and in secret stilloffer sacrifices to the spirits of the forest. They were verypicturesque in appearance, with their olive faces, blackmoustaches, dark Mongolian eyes, and white caftans of coarsewoollen homespun. The Tatars and Bashkirs are Moham- Spking- Scenes in Samara. 77 medans ; tl
. In the land of Tolstoi; experiences of famine and misrule in Russia . A GKOUP OF TATARS. Mordvinians and Tcheremiss are of Finnish race, inhabitingthe forest regions of Kasan and its neighbouring districts,which have been their home as far back as history orthodox, they are at heart pagan, and in secret stilloffer sacrifices to the spirits of the forest. They were verypicturesque in appearance, with their olive faces, blackmoustaches, dark Mongolian eyes, and white caftans of coarsewoollen homespun. The Tatars and Bashkirs are Moham- Spking- Scenes in Samara. 77 medans ; tliey and these semi-pagan tribes, including also theYotyaks and Tchuvaslii, their neighbours, are on a very highmoral level, being industrious, sober, and honest. I could not sleep at all the first night. The smell, thevermin, and the presence of diseased mushiks were too muchfor me; I had frequently to go out on to the platform—thecars are of the American pattern—on account of the famine had one incidentally good result: there was. THE TOUNGEB TOLSTOI S HEADQUAETERS AT PATROVKA. a general absence of drunken people; the first I noticed was apriest. During the night a prison car, whose small windows wereprotected by iron bars, and on each of whose platforms stoodtwo gendarmes in grey, armed with rifle, revolver, and sword,was attached to our train. It was filled with convicts boundfor Siberia, including both genuine criminals and those whosepolitical or religious opinions made them obnoxious in the eyesof a suspicious Government. I noticed, when I got a glimpsethrough the double doors, some comely girl faces among thecrowd of rough and shaggy musJdk heads. Even children are 78 Spring Scenes in Samara. not infrequently sent to Siberia for political or ecclesiasticalreasons. Birukoff had brought bandages and antiseptics, andoccupied himself each day with washing and dressing the soresof the mushiks, and speaking words of cheer to them. The second night, also, I could
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