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. 1912 Excerpt: ...yet neither the radiant dome of St. Isaac's shining high over all, nor the great river Neva sweeping its blue waters (c) Underwood & Underwood Count Leo Tolstoy In The Fields through the clty can Put Near His Home merriment into the hearts of the people there. Poverty, ignorance, and suspicion reign among the peasants ...
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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. 1912 Excerpt: ...yet neither the radiant dome of St. Isaac's shining high over all, nor the great river Neva sweeping its blue waters (c) Underwood & Underwood Count Leo Tolstoy In The Fields through the clty can Put Near His Home merriment into the hearts of the people there. Poverty, ignorance, and suspicion reign among the peasants throughout the country, and there is little joy. Only members of the aristocracy are well educated, and can know the pleasures of a comfortable life. The Czar, Nicholas II, has served the nations in a greater way than any of his predecessors by inaugurating the Peace Conferences at The Hague. Some Russians, like Ivan Turgenev and Count Leo Tolstoy, have written great books; others, like Anton Rubinstein and Peter Tschaikowsky, were musicians, and now and then an artist has appeared, but none who could paint more wonderfully than Vereshchagin. Yet, in general, Russians have done little for their fellow men, and that little has been grim and full of melancholy, like the lives which Russians know. Sometimes it seems strange that a country sheltering a hundred million souls should have achieved so few great and noble things. The peasants are not to blame, however. While the other branches of the white people were demanding of their rulers greater liberty and more education, they have been kept as serfs to the lords, their masters. Although they are freemen now, their lives are still full of hardships which, they believe, must be borne without complaint as " the will of God." Some years ago Lord Edward Bulwer Lytton inscribed in a novel1 the following dedication: TO W THE GREAT GERMAN PEOPLE A RACE OF THINKERS AND OK CRITICS A FOREIGN BUT FAMILIAR AUDIENCE, PROFOUND IN JUDGMENT CANDID IN REPROOF, GENEROUS IN APPRECIATION THIS WORK .
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