. A thousand years of Russian history. onwas dawning. The birthright of man, liberty, could not beheld back from the peasant for ever, and the fall of Sevastopoldrew after it the fall of that apparently impregnable fortress—serfdom. Leroy-Beaulieu contends that the foreign armies onRussian soil were unwittingly battering and ramming againstthe stronghold of Russias enslavement ; that, unknown tothemselves, they were actually working for the liberation ofthe peasant. He considers Russia all the better for herdefeat: Jamais un pays na, peut-etre, achete aussi bonmarche sa regeneration nationale.
. A thousand years of Russian history. onwas dawning. The birthright of man, liberty, could not beheld back from the peasant for ever, and the fall of Sevastopoldrew after it the fall of that apparently impregnable fortress—serfdom. Leroy-Beaulieu contends that the foreign armies onRussian soil were unwittingly battering and ramming againstthe stronghold of Russias enslavement ; that, unknown tothemselves, they were actually working for the liberation ofthe peasant. He considers Russia all the better for herdefeat: Jamais un pays na, peut-etre, achete aussi bonmarche sa regeneration nationale. Dune guerre dont Tissuene couta que des sacrifices de son amour-propre, dune paixdont les clauses humiliantes ont ete profondement effacees,U ne lui reste quune durable transformation interieure. The Emperor and his new political adviser, Gortchakov,who had succeeded Nesselrode, realised the necessity for thisdomestic regeneration, and that the very fact of Russia beingput hors de combat politically might—nay, should—be a means. .^^ 1 iipuy ^^•?^--t/-<« •^ ,*•
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