A year in Russia

by Maurice Baring

The people who represent these two schools of thought both say that they are Russia. They assert: “We are Russia—tout le reste est littérature.” Only time can show which is right. I have noticed that with the representatives of both these schools the wish is father to the thought and that they generalise on their own desires and their own experience coloured by those desires. Which really represents Russia, we shall know perhaps in ten years’ time. As far as my own experience goes among peasants, workmen, &c., they have all been representatives of the second school. But then, the first school would say that this is immaterial, because the people may be thirsty for law, and yet incapable of drinking it.

But those who belong to the second school, and without following any party are liberal in thought and deed, say to their opponents: “If it is true that what you represent is really Russia, we have no further wish to remain Russians, and the day you are proved to be in the right, we will emigrate and settle in Turkey, in Persia, or in China.”

INDEX

• Agrarian Question, the—
  • Agitation, beginnings of the, [98], [99]
  • Cadets, attitude towards the, [230]
  • Cause of the problem, [178]–79
  • Duma, speeches in the, [235]
  • Expropriation scheme, [179]–81
  • Government’s attitude towards, [108]–9
  • Peasants’ view of the land purchase, [145]–47;
    • of possession, [290]–91
  • Solutions proposed, [88]–89, [179]–83, [230]–32
• Aladin, M.—
  • Politics of, [223]–24
  • Speeches of, [199]–200, [208], [214], [221], [246]–47
• Alexander II., reforms of, [182], [214], [270]–71
• Alexander III., policy of, [182]
• Alexandra, Queen, Russian opinion of, [290]
• Alliance of October 17th, see Octobrists
• “Alliance of the Russian People”—
  • Demonstration outside the Kremlin, [49]
  • Principles of the, [152]–53
• Amnesty Question, the, [36], [37]—
  • Current ideas on, [225]–26
  • English opinion on, [262]
  • Kovolievski, Prof., speech on, [215]
  • Nabokov, M., speech on, [213]–14
• Anikin, M., his speeches, [214], [221]
• Anti-revolutionaries, attacks on Count Witte, [79]
• Army, the—
  • Rostov Regiment, mutiny in the, [50]
  • Spirit in the, [64]–65, [72], [209]–10, [236], [299]
  • Volunteers, position of, [296]–99
• Arnold, Matthew, quoted, [37];
  • • his books on the Russian index, [92]
• Art nouveau style, prevalence in Russia, [192], [245]
• Artistic Theatre, Moscow, Gorki’s play at, [29]–30
• Assumption, Cathedral of the, Holy Week services, [163]–64
• Audience, characteristics of a Russian, [198]–99
• Aulard, Prof., quoted, [222]
• Austin, Alfred, [82]
• Austrians in St. Petersburg, [286]
• Autonomists, number in the Duma, [218]
• Bacon, Lord, [106]
• Baikal, Lake of, [4]
• Balfour, Mr., [105], [240], [284]
• Barine, meaning of term, [295]
• Bastille, storming of the, Walpole quoted, [116]–17
• Bauman, veterinary surgeon shot, [28];
  • • his funeral, [32]–33
• Beaconsfield, Lord, [119]
• Beethoven, Fidelio, [40]
• Bielostok, massacre at, [253]
• Birch, punishment abolished by Alexander II.
• Biron, Duc de, quoted, [249]
• Bismarck, Prince, policy, [41], [102], [111]–12
• “Black Gang,” or “Black Hundred,” [28], [34]–35, [67], [88], [289]
• Black Sea Fleet, mutiny, [6]
• “Block,” composition of the, [156]
• Boswell, quoted, [152]
• Boulygin project, the, [98]
• “Browning” pistols, use of, [50]
• Bruno, Giordano, [112]
• Buckle read in Russia, [93]
• Bunyan, popularity of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” [148]
• Bureaucratic system, faults of the, [94]–95
• Burial of Our Lord, service commemorating, [163]–64
• Byron read in Russia, [93], [105], [273]
• Cabman, the, in Moscow, [73], [291]
• “Cadets,” see Constitutional Democrats
• Capital Punishment—
  • Abolition in Russia, question of, [260]–61
  • Bill passed by the Duma abolishing, [270]–72
• Carlyle read in Russia, [93]
• Catherine II., [301]
• Character, English and Russian compared, [77]–78, [223]–24
• Chartres, Bishop of, quoted, [207]
• Chernaia, village of, [51]–55
• Chinese—
  • Hospitality of the, [12]–13
  • Recitation, their manner of; 15–16
  • Wizard, the professional, [16]–17
• Chila, description, [5]–7
• Chouchnin, Admiral, assassination, [301]
• Climate, Russian, [180]–81
• Commerce and Industry, party of—
  • Principles of, [153]
  • Union with the Octobrists, [156]
• Congress, the Inter-Parliamentary, [262], [273]
• Conservative Party, the—
  • Attitude towards the Manifesto of Oct. 17th, [133];
    • towards the Duma, [222]–23;
    • towards the Government, [275]
  • Dissolution, opinion of the, [282]
  • Position after the Manifesto, [38]
• Constituent Assembly, the demand for, [42], [76]
• Constitution, Government’s intentions regarding a, [109], [132]
• Constitutional Democrats, the—
  • Characteristics, [194]–95
  • Current ideas on their policy, [94], [226]–29, [230]–32
  • Moderates’ charges against, [153]–54
  • Origin of the, [129]–30
  • Policy, [46], [153], [175]–76, [181]–82, [283]–85
  • Programme, their election, [87], [158]–59
  • Prominent members sketched, [218]–220
  • Strength in the Duma, [156], [158]–59, [218]
  • Tiers-État compared with the, [205]–7
• “Controller” of a train, his duties, [5]
• Convicts, Russian, treatment of, [24], [26]
• Cornhill Magazine sold in Moscow, [160]
• Cossacks, the—
  • Attitude towards the “soldiers,” [12]
  • Opinion of a Cossack regarding, [298]
  • People, treatment of, [28]–29, [33], [68]–69
• Council of Empire, charges against the Duma, [197]
• Crown, misunderstanding between the Duma and the, [278]–79
• Dante, quoted, [19]
• Danton, quoted, [249]
• De Witt, [112]
• Decembrists of 1825, [82]
• “Declaration of the Rights of Man,” [107]
• Delegate, the election of a, [154]–56
• Demchinsky, Boris Nikolaievitch, [10]
• Democratic Reform, the Party of, Policy, [220]
• Dolgoroukoff, Prince, [130], [220]
• Dostoievski, [18], [89]—
  • Anniversary celebrations, [121]
  • Genius of 122–27,
  • “Letters from a Dead House,” popularity of, [149]–50
  • Peasants’ opinion of his books, [264]
• Doyle, Conan, read in Russian, [18]
• Dresden Hôtel, Moscow, [188]
• Drunkenness in Russia, [7]
• Du Maurier, quoted, [32]
• Dubassoff, Admiral, addresses the crowd, [49];
  • • charges against, [68], [86]
• Duma, the—
  • Capital punishment abolished, [270]–72
  • Censure, vote of, passed, [215]
  • Composition, [218]–24
  • Concession, the, of Aug. 6th, [98]
  • Current ideas regarding the, [225]–32, [299]–300
  • Dissolution, [275]–81;
    • ex-members’ appeal to the country, [287]
  • Emperor’s refusal to receive President, [207]–9
  • General desire for, [88]
  • Government’s attitude towards, [221], [234], [259]
  • Loan Question, the, [174]–77
  • Opening of the, [191]–201
  • Orderliness of the, [198]–99, [203]
  • Prime Minister’s Address, [212]–13
  • Prognostications regarding, [153], [156]–58, [189]–90
  • Speech of a peasant, [215]–17;
    • of Prince Urussoff, [250]–57
• Durnovo, M.—
  • Policy, [95], [132], [136]
  • Resignation, [174], [184]
• Easter in Moscow, [162]–69
• Education, faults of English, [92]–93,
  • • see also Schools
• Eight-hours’ day question, [87]–88
• Ekaterinoslav Regiment, the, [165]
• Elections, results of the, [156]
• Electorate Law, news of the, brought to Moscow, [61]–62
• Elizabeth, Empress, capital punishment abolished by, [260], [270]
• Emigration suggested as solution to agrarian question, [181]–83
• England—
  • Attitude of average Russian towards, [93]
  • Convention in, Russian opinion regarding, [103]–6, [240]–42, [266]
  • Opinion in, on Russian questions, [259]–62
• Ermitage Restaurant, proprietor shot, [67]
• Ermolov, police officer, his crime, [78];
  • • his punishment, [261]
• Esthonians, number of, in the Duma, [218]
• Expropriation of private property proposed, [179]–80;
  • • of State Lands, [180]–81
• Extreme Conservatives, reception of the October Manifesto, [135]
• Extreme Radicals, reception of the October Manifesto, [135]
• Fairs—
  • Moscow town, [169]
  • Palm Sunday at Red Place, [159]–61
• Fasts, Holy Week, observance of, [163]–64
• Feodor, peasant, his opinions, [290]–95
• Fielder’s School, the revolutionary meeting in, [56];
  • • condition after the bombardment, [66]
• Finland, political meeting at Terrioki, [243]–49
• Fontanka, the printing-press discovered at, [254]–56
• Foreign intervention after dissolution of the Duma, [286], [288]–89
• Franchise Law, nature of the, [154]–56
• Freedom of Speech granted by October Manifesto, [98]–99
• French Revolution—
  • Russian compared with, [116]–18, [174], [205]–7, [210]
  • Walpole, Horace, quoted, [116]–18
• Funeral in Moscow, description of a, [32]–33
• Gapon, [248]
• “Gasudar,” the, [77]
• Germany, attitude towards the Polish question, [41]–42
• Gipsies, Russian, [297]
• Gladstone, [106]
• Glinka, M., doctor, [14], [17]
• Godziadan, the military station at, [10]
• Gogol, his unpopularity, [149]
• Gonchuling, description, [9]–10;
  • • tram-railway from, [20]
• Gorki, Maxim, “Children of the Sun,” description, [29]–30
• “Gospodi, Gospodi,” [166]
• Government, the—
  • Attitude towards the Duma, [221], [234], [258]–59
  • Employment of the Press, [234]–35, [250]–56
  • Oppression of lower classes, [296]
  • Policy of “Proisvol,” [86]–87, [94]–96
  • Resignation of the Ministry, July, 1906, [274]
• Governor-General, Moscow, the attack on, [188]–89
• Governors, Provincial, empowered to “outlaw” province, [99]
• Habeas Corpus, the Russian, [224]
• Haggard, Rider, read in Russian, [18]
• Hall of the Duma, description, [191]–92
• Hardie, Mr. Keir, [284]
• Haymaking near Moscow, [291]–97
• Hertzenstein, M., account of, [220];
  • • assassination of, [301]
• Herzen the Socialist, [160]
• Heyden, Count, politics, [218]
• Hliebnikov, M., Cossack officer, [14], [18], [122]
• Holy Shroud, the Service of the, [163]
• Holy Week in Moscow, [162]–63
• Homel, the January massacre at, [253]
• Hooliganism in St. Petersburg, [40];
  • • in Moscow, [49]–50;
    • see also Black Gang
• Hôtel de France, Moscow, [28];
  • • the Métropole windows broken by the Black Gang, [35];
    • the National, [35];
    • the Dresden, Moscow, [73]
• Hugo, Victor, quoted, [118]
• Hung-Hutzes, depredations by the, [20]
• Ibsen, [103]
• Ignatieff, Count, estates of, [236]
• “Intellectuals,” the, character of, [43];
  • • wholesale arrests of the 132
• Intelligenzia, the—
  • As a Political Party, [130]
  • Revolutionary sympathies of the, [77], [81]–83, [90]–91
  • Treatment by the Government, [91]–96
• Irkutsk, [3]
• Ivan Veliki, Cathedral of, [164]
• Jacobins, the, [88]
• Jen-tzen-tung, description, [11]–12, [15]–16, [20]
• Jerome, Jerome K., read in Russian, [18]
• Jewish massacres, the, [250]–57, [300]–301
• Jilkin, M., [245]
• John, Father, of Kronstadt, [52]
• Johnson, Dr., quoted, [114], [148], [152]
• Junius, quoted, [186]–88
• Karakosof, execution of, [271]
• Karavaieff, B. V. Kousmin, [220]
• Kareev, N., [220]
• K. D. Club, the, deserted on dissolution of the Duma, [281]
• Kharbin, description of, [8]–9
• Khilkoff, his portrait, [22]
• Kiev, massacres at, [253], [255]
• Kipling, Rudyard, read in Russian, [18];
  • • the “Jungle Book,” [210]–11
• Kizlitzki, M., of the battery, [14], [17]–18
• Kniaz Potemkin, the mutiny on the, [98]
• Knout, use of the, abolished, [270]
• Kokoshkin, F. F., joins the Zemstvoists, [130];
  • • speeches of, [219]
• Kologrivo, village of, [270]
• Komissaroff, officer, and the printing-press, [254]–55
• Koulich, [165], [166]
• Kouropatkin, [10], [220]
• Kouznetsk, town of, effect of railway strike at, [21]–25
• Kouznetski Most, the, Moscow, [59]
• Kovolievski, Prof.—
  • Expropriation, his speech on, [214]–15
  • Inter-Parliamentary Congress, to go to, [272]
  • Motion of, [192]–94
  • Style of oratory, [199], [208]–9, [220]
• Kreekòons, arrests of the, [154]
• Kremlin, the—
  • Demonstrations on the Emperor’s birthday, [49]
  • Easter Services in, [162]–69
• Kronstadt, the mutiny at, [44], [98]
• La Fontaine, quoted, [297]–98
• Labour Party, composition in the Duma, [218], [221]
• Labour Party Club, [281]
• Land, see Agrarian question
• Landlords, condition subsequent to the land sales, [178]–79
• Landscape, a typical Russian, [144]
• Lansdowne, Lord, [284]
• Law and Order, party of, [153]
• “League of Liberation” formed by the Zemstvoists, [129]
• Lee, Vernon, [161]
• Leroy-Beaulieu, M., quoted, [270]–71;
  • • his book on Russia, [289]
• Letts, number of, in the Duma, [218]
• Li, Chinese measure, [12]
• Libau, the mutiny at, [98]
• Liberal Party, the—
  • Attitude towards the War, [128]
  • Demands of, [36]–38, [42]
  • Manifesto, reception of the, [35], [133]–34
  • Views of, [107]–116, [303]–7
• Liberté de Mœurs, [234], [241]
• Liberty of the Press, see Press
• Liberty, personal, in Russia, [242]–45
• Linievitch, [9]
• Ling Po, [15]
• Literature, amount of translations from English, read, [18]–19
• Lithuanians, number of, in the Duma, [218]
• Little Russians, [24]
• Loan, the Foreign—
  • Party opinions regarding, [174]–77
  • Social Revolutionaries, attitude of the, [169]–70
• Lobkovski Pereoolok, the, Moscow, [56]
• London, a Russian’s opinion of, [266]
• Losev, peasant, his speech in the Duma, [215]–17
• Louis XVI., Prof. Aulard on, quoted, [222];
  • • his policy, [258]–59
• Lvov, M., joins the Zemstvoists, [130], [220]
• Mæterlinck, [103]
• Manchuria, outbreak of typhus, [4];
  • • chaos at the Railway Station, [7]–8
• Manège, the, Easter at, [165]
• Manifesto of December, 1904, [98]
• Manifesto of October 17, 1905—
  • Moscow, effect of publication in, [27]–28, [31]–38
  • Nature of the, [132]–33
  • Party opinion on, [134]–35
  • St. Petersburg, effect of publication in, [107]–8
  • Trepoff, attitude towards the, [39]
• Manifestoes, party, after dissolution of the Duma, [289];
  • • the two, of February 18, 1905, [98]
• Marlborough, Duke of, [106]
• “Marseillaise,” singing of the, [244]
• Martial Law enforced in Poland, [42], [99]
• Massacres, the, Prince Urussoff’s speech on the causes, [250]–57
• Maundy Thursday services, [163]
• Maupassant, Guy de, [264]
• Metrofan, porter, disappearance, [67];
  • • death, [73]
• Métropole Restaurant, Moscow, [31]
• Milioukov, Prof., forms the “Union of Unions,” [130]
  • Leader of Cadet party, [153], [218]–19
  • Policy of, [208]–9
• Mill, John S., read in Russia, [93]
• Milton read in Russia, [93];
  • • Paradise Lost, [147]–50
• Mirabeau, Walpole’s criticism, [117]–18, [120];
  • • quoted, [199]–200, [210]
• Mirsky, Prince, his reforms, [98], [114], [119], [120]
• Moderates, the—
  • Criticism of Count Witte, [46]
  • Number of, in the Duma, [218]
  • Principles, [80]
• Monarchical party, the, [152]
• Monarchy, attitude of the political parties towards the, [152], [153]
• Mongols, manner of riding, [13]–14;
  • • dress of, in Jen-tzen-tung, [16]
• Morley, John, read in Russia, [93]
• Morning Post and the Censorship, [289]
• Morshansk, [151]
• Moscow—
  • After the Rising, [63]–74;
    • after the dissolution of the Duma, [288]
  • Christmas Day 1905 in, [59]–61
  • Easter in, [162]–69
  • Election results in, [154], [156]–57
  • Hooliganism in, [49]–50
  • Manifesto of October, effects of publication, [27]–28, [31]–38
  • Political parties in, [128]–36
  • Strikes in, effects of, [50]–62, [99]
  • Suburbs of, [289]–90
  • Town fairs of, [169]
  • Witchcraft in, [292]
• Moscow Gazette, connection with the massacres, [253]
• Moscow River, the, [293]
• Moujik, the term, [298]
• Mukden, battle of, [9]
• Murders, political, prevalence of, [272]
• Muromtzeff, C. A., President of the Duma, [192], [196], [219]
• Musalmans, number of, in the Duma, [218]
• Mwilnikov, the, Moscow, [56]
• Nabokov, M., his speech replying to the Prime Minister, [213]–14;
  • • his style of oratory, [219]
• Name-day, observance of the, [265]
• Napoleon, his policy, [111]
• Nationalists, the reactionary, criticism of Count Witte, [46]
• Nazarenko, the peasant, sketch, [263]–64, [273], [279];
  • • returns to Finland, [281]
• Nebogatoff, Admiral, [291]
• Necker, M., Walpole’s criticism, [117]
• Neglinii Proiesd, the, Moscow, [59], [68]
• Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg, [281]
• New Year, Russian observance of the feast, [82]–83, [89]
• Nicholas II.—
  • Absolute authority preserved by the October Manifesto, [132]–33
  • Audience refused to President of Duma, [207]–9
  • Knout, use of, abolished by, [270]
  • Reign of, sketched, [172]–73
  • Zemstvo deputation to, [98]
• Nikolaiev, Railway Station seized by the strikers, [57];
  • • scene on Christmas Day, 1905, [60]
• Nikolaievitch, Dimitri, on the political outlook, [171]–77
• “Norodniu Dom,” the, St. Petersburg, [265]–67
• Novoe Vremya, the, [214]
• Octobrists, the—
  • Attitude towards the Manifesto, [108]
  • Dissolution of the Duma, opinion regarding, [282]
  • Election results, reception of the, [157]
  • Moderate principles of the, [153], [156]
• “Old Souls,” arrangement for the purchase of land, [145]–46
• Opéra Bouffe, the, [44]
• Orleans, Duke of, Walpole’s criticism, [117]
• Ostrovski, Mr., [9]
• Ouida, [138]
• Oushitai, Chinese town, [12], [20]
• Palm Sunday in Moscow, [159]–61
• Paris, the street fighting of ’32, &c., [57], [69];
  • • a Russian’s opinion of, [266]
• Pascha, [165], [166]
• Peace negotiations, the, popular opinion regarding, [1]–3, [8]–10, [15], [16]
• Peasants, the—
  • Character, [65], [143]–44, [181]–82
  • Condition, 1905–6, [88]–89
  • Duma, opinion of the, [196]–99;
    • their behaviour in the, [203]–4, [209]–10;
    • their politics in the, [221]
  • Education and literary taste of, [147]–51
  • Emigration, the question of, [181]–83
  • Franchise, method of using the, [154]
  • Land purchase, view of the, [145]–47
  • Poverty of, [179]–80
  • Speech of a peasant in the Duma, [215]–17
• People, the Russian, description, [141]–44
• Peter the Great, his policy, [229]
• Peterhof, suburb of, description, [204]–5
• Petrajitski, L., [220]
• Petruckin, peasant, his opinions, [267]–270, [273], [274]
• Petrunkevitch, I., leader of the Zemstvoists, [129];
  • • Cadet, [153];
    • his style, [219]
• Piensa, railway strike at, [25]
• Plehve, M., public opinion regarding, [47];
  • • his régime, [119], [182]
• Poland—
  • Constitutional liberties delayed, [40]–42
  • Duma, number of Poles in the, [218]
  • Local autonomy for, desired by Cadets, [153]
  • Martial law declared, [99]
• Police—
  • Abolition of the secret force, [36]
  • Cadets opposed by, [157]
  • December rising, non-preparedness for, [131]–32
  • Massacres, connection with the, [250]–56
  • Methods of the, [170], [201], [226]
  • Shooting of, [78]–79, [207], [261]
  • Unlimited powers of the, [94]
  • Withdrawal and restoration of, in Moscow, [28], [35]
• Politeness, Russian, [4]–5
• Political Parties, formation of the, [128]–29, [152]
• Postal Strike, the, effects of, [44], [99];
  • • arrest of the officials, [99]
• Presnaya, destruction of the factory at, [85]
• Press, the—
  • Censorship of, [95];
    • renewed after dissolution of the Duma, [289]
  • English, accusations against, [79]
  • Freedom of, [119]
  • Massacres, connection with the, [250]–56
  • Ministerial use of the, [234]–35
  • Radical, attacks on Count Witte, [42]–43;
    • on the Government, [119]
  • Revolutionary spirit of, [237]
• Priests, a peasant’s opinion of the, [300]–301
• Printing-Press, discovery of the, [254]–56
• Prisoners, political, amnesty to, see Amnesty question;
  • • deportment of, [6]
• Professional classes, parties formed among the, [130];
  • • see also Intelligenzia
• Public meetings, law forbidding, August 6, 1905, [98];
  • • allowed by October Manifesto, [98]–99
• Public opinion on the situation, Dec., 1905,47–59
• Punch sold in Moscow, [160]
• Railway travelling in Russia, [4], [8], [243], [296]–97
• Ravnienie or “levelling,” peasants’ view of, [145]
• Red Cross—
  • Abuse of the, [67]
  • Encampments near Jen-tzen-tung, [12]
• Red Place, Palm Sunday fair at, [159]–61
• Reformkleider, use of, [245]
• Religion of the peasants, [268]–69
• Renan, quoted, [84]–85, [103]
• Retch, the, [284]
• Revolution of December, 1905—
  • Account, [65]–69
  • Causes, [69]–74
  • Effect on nature of the people, [142]–43
• Revolutionaries, the—
  • Criticism of Count Witte, [46]
  • Demands of, [75]–77
  • Tactics of, [65]–66
• Riansk, Railway strike at, [25];
  • • scene at the station, [60]
• Riazan, Railway strike at, [25]–26
• Riding school, Moscow, Cossacks fire from, [33]
• Right and Order, Alliance of, [100], [156]
• Robespierre, speech of, [199]–200;
  • • Danton’s criticism, [249]
• Rodichev, M.—
  • Cadet leader, [153]
  • Speeches of, [199], [214]
  • Zemstvoist leader, [129], [219]–20
• Rossia, the, [276], [288]
• Rostov Regiment, mutiny in the, [50]
• Ruskin read in Russia, [93]
• Russ, the, criticism of C. Witte, [117]
• Russkie Viedomosti, [43];
  • • suppression of the, [87]
• Russkoe Slovo, offices burnt, [66];
  • • attack on Count Witte, [79]
• St. Petersburg—
  • Current ideas in, Feb., 1906, [100]–120
  • Election results in, [154], [156]
  • Emperor’s birthday, demonstrations, [49]
  • Foreign intervention, the, [286]
  • Hooliganism in, [49]–50
  • Strikes in, [39]–44, [99]
• Samara, [21], [22]
• Saratov, agrarian agitation in, [99]
• Sardou, quoted, [138]
• Saviour, Church of the, [165]–66
• Schipov, Mr., endeavours to unite the Zemstva, [129]–30;
  • • his politics, [218];
    • formation of new ministry entrusted to, [274]
• Schools, village evening, [53]–55;
  • • village day, [150];
    • instituted by the Zemstvoists, [183]
• Schumann, Clara, [164]
• Serfs, results of emancipation, [178]
• Sevastopol, the mutiny in, [99]
• Shakespeare read in Russia, [93]
• Shaw, Bernard, [105]
• Shelley read in Russia, [93], [105], [267], [273]
• Siberia, suggested emigration to, [181]
• Sieyès, quoted, [206]
• Singing, Russian peasant, [294]
• Sipiagin, M., case of, [185]
• Sisran, the station at, [21]
• Skashi or tellers of tales, [149]
• “Skitaletzt,” his style, [82]
• Social Democrats, the—
  • Aladin’s speech, criticism of, [248]
  • Political parties, position among, [154]
  • Principles, [46]
• Social Revolutionaries, the—
  • Elections, abstain from action in, [157]
  • Political parties, position among, [154]
  • Principles, [46]
• Socialist Club, the, [281]
• Socialists, [154], [156]
• “Societies,” arrangement by, for the purchase of land, [145]–46
• Soldiers’ Hospital, Moscow, [72]–73, [89], [166]–69
• Sortes Virgilianæ, [72]
• Sosnofka, [137]–51
• South African War, Russian opinions, [101]–2
• Spencer, Herbert, read in Russia, [93], [264], [267]
• Stachovitch, M. A., politics of, [130], [218]
• Stanislavoshi, M., [29]
• State Lands, expropriation proposed, [180]–81
• States-General, opening compared with opening of Duma, [205]–7
• Stevenson read in Chinese, [18]
• Stolypin, M., policy, [288]–89
• Strikes, the—
  • General, in Moscow, Dec., 1905, [50]–62
  • Guerilla tactics of the Strikers, [57]
  • Postal, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, [44], [99]
  • Railway, warnings of, [5]–7;
    • October incidents at Kouznetsk, [21]–25;
    • behaviour of the strikers, [25];
    • effect in Moscow, [31]–38
• Struve, M., [153]
• Students, the, behaviour on publication of Manifesto, [27]–28;
  • • treatment by the Black Gang, [34]–35
• Suffrage, universal, the demand for, [42], [87];
  • • question of women’s, [158]
• Tacitus quoted, [95]
• Tagantzef, M., comments on capital punishment, [271]
• Tarantass, the, [139]
• Ta-shi-chiæ, battle of, incident, [17]–18
• Tauris Palace, description, [191]
• Tea-shops, Russian, [293]
• Telegrams, posting of, in the Duma, [204]
• Terrioki in Finland, political meeting at, [243]–49
• Tiers-Etat, Cadets compared with the, [205]–7
• Tolstoi, treatment by the Government, [105];
  • • compared with Dostoievski, [126];
    • a peasant’s opinion of, [263]–64
• Toula, [21]
• Transbaikalia, [6]
• Trepoff, General—
  • Character, [39]–40
  • Dictatorship of, [98]
  • Radical Press and, [43]
  • Resignation demanded, [36]
• Troubetzkoi, Prince S. N., [128]
• Turkestan, suggested emigration to, [181]
• Twain, Mark, read in Russian, [18]
• Typhus, outbreak in Manchuria, [4]
• Ukraine, number of, in the Duma, [218]
• Ukase of December, 1904, [98]
• “Union of Unions,” formation of the, [130]
• Unions, political, formation of, November, 1904, [130]
• Urussoff, Prince, [220];
  • • his speech in the Duma, [250]–57
• Verne, Jules, Michel Strogoff, [139]
• Village, description of a Russian, [140]–41
• Vilna, the massacre at, [253]
• Vinaver, M., [220]
• Volkonsky, Prince, politics, [218]
• Voting, orderliness during the, [159]
• Walpole, Horace, quoted, [116]–18, [120]
• War, the, current ideas regarding, [101]–2
• Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, read in Russian, [18]
• Wells, H. G., Kipps, [105];
  • • Food of the Gods, [113]
• Windt, the game of, [228]
• Witchcraft, employment of, [292]
• Witte, Count—
  • Financial policy, [177]
  • Greatness of his task, [185]–86
  • Komissaroff, his interview with, [255]
  • Manifesto of October 17th, publication, [107]
  • Party criticism of, [46]–47, [79]–81, [134]–36
  • Power of, [43]–44
  • Public opinion regarding, [17], [47]–48, [184]–85
  • Radical press, opposition, [42]
  • Resignation, [175], [184]
  • Russ, criticism of the, [117]
  • Zemstva, their address to, [99];
    • their attitude towards, [110]–13
• Zemstva, the—
  • Coalition of, [128]–30
  • Emperor, the deputation to, [98], [128]
  • Leaders refuse Cabinet posts, [135]–36
  • Liberal demand regarding Ministers, [36]
  • Schools instituted by the, [183]
  • Witte, attitude towards, [99], [103], [110]–13
• Zemstvo Constitutionalists, formation of the, [129]–30
• Zhilkin, his style, [221]
• Zola, M., compared with Dostoievski, [126];
  • • read in Russia, [264]

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