Provincial Russia . ^>. VII WHITE RUSSIA White Russia is the name given to the upperbasin of the Dnieppr, bounded on the south bythe River Pripet, and on the north by the EasternDvina. The name is said to allude to the colourof the peasant dress. The four Governments ofVitebsk, Smolensk, MogilyefF, and Minsk, occupyabout a twentieth part of European Russia, andthe population numbers over seven millions, ofwhom five are White Russians. The rest is madeup of Great Russians, Jews, Poles, and Lithu-anians. Here the purest Slavonic type is pre-served. They have not blended with other stocks,as t
Provincial Russia . ^>. VII WHITE RUSSIA White Russia is the name given to the upperbasin of the Dnieppr, bounded on the south bythe River Pripet, and on the north by the EasternDvina. The name is said to allude to the colourof the peasant dress. The four Governments ofVitebsk, Smolensk, MogilyefF, and Minsk, occupyabout a twentieth part of European Russia, andthe population numbers over seven millions, ofwhom five are White Russians. The rest is madeup of Great Russians, Jews, Poles, and Lithu-anians. Here the purest Slavonic type is pre-served. They have not blended with other stocks,as the Great Russians with the Finns and theLittle Russians with the Mongohans. The Tar-tars came no farther west than Smolensk, andfrom Poland and Lithuania the only immigrantswere noblemen, and these were few. The earliest inhabitants of the country wereof Finnish race. These were ousted by Lithu- 105 14 106 PROVINCIAL RUSSIA anians, and they in their turn receded before threeSlavonic tribes that moved north from the foot-hi
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