. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across FINLAND PEASANTS IN HOLIDAY COSTUME. Servians and Bulgarians, which amount in all to less than one hundredthousand. The identity of the Servians and Bulgarians with the Slavicrace has been the excuse, if not the reason, for the repeated attempts ofRussia to unite Servia, Bulgaria, and the other Dauubian principalities PAN-SLAVIC UNION. 95 with the grand Empire. Tlie union of the Slavic people under one gov-ernment has been the dream of the
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across FINLAND PEASANTS IN HOLIDAY COSTUME. Servians and Bulgarians, which amount in all to less than one hundredthousand. The identity of the Servians and Bulgarians with the Slavicrace has been the excuse, if not the reason, for the repeated attempts ofRussia to unite Servia, Bulgaria, and the other Dauubian principalities PAN-SLAVIC UNION. 95 with the grand Empire. Tlie union of the Slavic people under one gov-ernment has been the dream of the emperors of Russia for a long time,and what could be a better union, they argue, than their absorption intoour own nation V Fred asked who the Slavs were, and whence they came. According to those who have studied the subject, Doctor Bronsonanswered, they were anciently known as Scythians or Sarmatians. Their. INHABITANTS OF SOUTHERN RUSSIA. early history is much obscured, but they seem to have had their centrearound the Carpathian Mountains, whence they sjDread to the four pointsof the compass. On the north they reached to the Baltic; westward, theywent to the banks of the Elbe; southward, beyond the Danube; andeastward, their progress was impeded by the Tartar hordes of Asia, and 96 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL^N EMPIRE. tliey did not j^enetrate far into Siberia until comparatively recent their extension thej split up into numerous tribes and independentorganizations; thus their unity was lost, and they took the form in wliicliwe find them to-day. Poles and Kussians are both of the same race, andtheir languages have a common origin; but nowhere in the world can befound two people who hate each other more heartily. However muchthe Russians have favored a Pan-Slavist union, you may be sure the Poleslook on it with disfavor. The ancient Slavonic language has given way to the mo
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