TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
AND EDITED BY
HERMAN ROSENTHAL

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1904

Copyright, 1904, by Harper & Brothers.
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All rights reserved.
Published November, 1904.

CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
Preface[v]
I. Introduction[1]
II. Warsaw[8]
III. Warsaw—Continued[17]
IV. St. Petersburg[24]
V. St. Petersburg—Continued[33]
VI. Artist and Professor—Ilya Ryepin[44]
VII. The Hermitage[60]
VIII. The Hermitage—Continued[69]
IX. The Camorra—A Talk with a Russian Prince[83]
X. Sänger's Fall[94]
XI. The People's Palace of St. Petersburg (Narodni Dom)[103]
XII. Russia's Financial Future[111]
XIII. The Russian Finances[123]
XIV. A Funeral[133]
XV. The Chinovnik (The Russian Official)[144]
XVI. The Sufferings of the Jews[154]
XVII. The Jewish Question[167]
XVIII. Plehve[173]
XIX. The Administration of Justice[182]
XX. The Imperial Family as the Public Sees It[196]
XXI. Public Opinion and the Press[206]
XXII. Some Realities of the Legal Profession[217]
XXIII. The Student Body in Russia[226]
XXIV. Before the Catastrophe[235]
XXV. Sectarians and Socialists[245]
XXVI. Moscow[257]
XXVII. Moscow—Continued[270]
XXVIII. A Visit to Tolstoï[285]
XXIX. A Visit to Tolstoï—Continued[295]
XXX. A Visit to Tolstoï—Continued[310]