. Real Russians . < Oi Q aK H < o< H Z «a:H. Oh in c X ST. ISAACS CATHEDRAL, PETROGRAD. 87 is they who work on the fields and gather in the harvest,and who fill the places vacated by their is the soldatka, the soldiers wife, who has to keepthings going while her man is out in far-away France,or on the North-western or the distant Caucasianfront. As I watched the worshippers, my heart over-flowed with pity and sympathy for the mourners,and especially for the anxious young wife, whoselips moved so quickly, and whose hands were claspedin agonised supplication. Was she praying
. Real Russians . < Oi Q aK H < o< H Z «a:H. Oh in c X ST. ISAACS CATHEDRAL, PETROGRAD. 87 is they who work on the fields and gather in the harvest,and who fill the places vacated by their is the soldatka, the soldiers wife, who has to keepthings going while her man is out in far-away France,or on the North-western or the distant Caucasianfront. As I watched the worshippers, my heart over-flowed with pity and sympathy for the mourners,and especially for the anxious young wife, whoselips moved so quickly, and whose hands were claspedin agonised supplication. Was she praying for herdear one lying wounded in some field hospital far awayat the front ? Before the Ikon of the Virgin, candle after candlewas lit—the outward expression of the inward prayerof the Russian people. Men and women, officialsdecorated with orders, peasants, elegantly dressedladies, soldiers and little children, they all stepped upto the Ikon and kissed it. Oh, the fervour, the longingexpression in the eyes, which pleaded for an answerto the prayer
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