. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. THE TWO MOSCOWS 37 engine and carriage in Russia would be put there if necessary,was the reply. But, I objected, that would disorganize thewhole commerce of the country, and bring tens of thousands toruin. You dont understand, answered this official; if theTsar gave the word to take every railway carriage in Russia and. The Kremlin Square and Memorial of Alexander III., Moscow. run it across the Siberian Railway and throw it into the ChinaSea at the other end, who, I should
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. THE TWO MOSCOWS 37 engine and carriage in Russia would be put there if necessary,was the reply. But, I objected, that would disorganize thewhole commerce of the country, and bring tens of thousands toruin. You dont understand, answered this official; if theTsar gave the word to take every railway carriage in Russia and. The Kremlin Square and Memorial of Alexander III., Moscow. run it across the Siberian Railway and throw it into the ChinaSea at the other end, who, I should like to know, would preventit?* The influence of the throne is increasing rather thandiminishing, for I heard many complaints from educated Rus- * To a Russian no obstacle is unsurmountable when his Tsar commands. Witte, in his Report to H. M. the Emperor on the Budget of the Empire for 1900. 38 ALL THE RUSSIAS sians that certain Ministers of State were taking their proposalsdirect to the Tsar, whose signature made them irrevocably law,instead of submitting them first, as is customary, to the Councilof Ministers. The Tsar himself determined to build the Trans-Siberian Railway; it will cost a hundred millions sterling. Tradi-tion alone is more powerful than autocracy; if it were not, theworld would have even greater reason to admire the aspirationsof Nicholas II. A Tsar cannot command a policy which noMinister will undertake t
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