This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...secluded from contact with other nations. Their immediate neighbours were the Poles and Turks, enemies, and, to a certain extent, even inferiors in every stage of culture. Hence arose in the minds of the Russian people partly a contempt for innovations coming from abroad through hirelings, and partly an aversion ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...secluded from contact with other nations. Their immediate neighbours were the Poles and Turks, enemies, and, to a certain extent, even inferiors in every stage of culture. Hence arose in the minds of the Russian people partly a contempt for innovations coming from abroad through hirelings, and partly an aversion towards foreigners. This feeling is now beginning to die out slowly, but still there prevails a morbid love of old routine, nourished somewhat by conceit, and somewhat by laziness. The government dexterously avails itself of this predisposition, fostering it equally by laws and flattery, and encouraging mistrust, principally when it concerns Europe or the West. With Asia the Russian trader of every class entertains a direct and unlimited personal intercourse. The great exporting trade to Europe is principally in the hands of foreigners, above all Englishmen, Dutch, and Germans; in the south, in Odessa, in those of Italians, Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. It is not probable indeed that there exists a single autochtone Russian house carrying on a trade directly with foreign countries, or having branches out of Russia. Raw produce, as, for example, hides, grain, tallow, bemp, linen, timber, &c., is bought in the interior by Russian traders from noblemen, peasants, and nomades. Agents from Russian houses in sea-ports travel sometimes into the interior, but principally merchants of Moscow, Astrachan, Pazan, NijueeNovgorod, &c., buy, store, and bring the merchandise finally to the sea-ports, as St. Petersburg, Riga, Odessa, where it is sold to Russian wholesale dealers for cash, bills of exchange or credit being rather unusual in internal trade. The exporter, the foreigner, then steps in, and purchases, so to say, at the third or fourth hand. This e...
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