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Russian Life To-Day (Classic Reprint)

Author : Herbert Bury
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267420964
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Russian Life To-Day (Classic Reprint) written by Herbert Bury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Life to-Day Y first inclination, when the entirely unex pected proposal of the Publishers came to me to write this book, was immediately to decline. There are so many well-known writers on Russia, whose books are an unfailing pleasure and source of information, that it seemed to me to be nothing less than presumption to add to their number. But when I was assured that there seems to be a great desire just now for a book which, as the Publishers expressed it, should not attempt an elaborate sketch of the country, nor any detailed description of its system of government and administration, or any exhaustive study of the Russian Church, and yet should give the impressions of a sympathetic observer of some of the chief aspects of Russian Life which are likely to appeal to an English Churchman, I felt that I might venture to attempt it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Russian Life

Author : Francis H. E. Palmer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365479963
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Russian Life written by Francis H. E. Palmer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Life: In Town and Country Russian life, the only phase of the national existence that the ordinary visitor ever sees, whether on business or pleasure bent, is the outgrt of the reforms instituted by Peter the Great, and copied from much that we are familiar with in Western Europe. The modern development of Russia has, it is true, grown with wonderful rapidity of late years, but it is almost entirely confined to the towns and the regions easily accessible by the railway. New railways are constantly being laid down, but Russia covers so vast an area that a glance at the map will sufi'ice to show how large a pro portion of the country must remain for many years outside their inﬂuence. Less than twelve per cent. Of the nation reside in towns, not eight per cent. Near enough to urban centres to be inﬂuenced by town life, while the remaining eighty per cent., people of every rank of life from nobles to peasants, dwell in regions that modern life and thought have as yet hardly touched to any appreciable extent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Home Life in Russia (Classic Reprint)

Author : A. S. Rappoport
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483655768
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Home Life in Russia (Classic Reprint) written by A. S. Rappoport and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Home Life in Russia Ing features of a country about which the average reader, after all, knows but little. I have also described the daily round of family and social intercourse, the life at school, and the University, the outlook on religion and social questions. In the preparation of this volume I have relied not only upon memory and the reminiscences of my childhood, but also upon various Russian authors who have described several aspects of Russian Home Life. If I have succeeded in adding a little to the know ledge the average English reader possesses of Russia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Underground Russia

Author : S. Stepniak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Underground Russia written by S. Stepniak and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Day by Day With the Russian Army, 1914-15 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Bernard Pares
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331566307
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Day by Day With the Russian Army, 1914-15 (Classic Reprint) written by Bernard Pares and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Day by Day With the Russian Army, 1914-15 For the last ten years or more I have paid long visits to Russia, being interested in anything that might con duce to closer relations between the two countries. During this time the whole course of Russia's public life has brought her far nearer to England - ih particular, the creation of new legislative institutions, the Wonderful economic development of the country, and the first real acquaintance which England has made with Russian culture. I always travelled to Russia through Germany, whose people had an inborn unintelligence and contempt for all things Russian, and whose Government has done what it could to hold England and Russia at arm's length from each other. I often used to wonder which of us Germany would fight first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Russian Life to-Day

Author : Herbert Bury
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330123751
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Russian Life to-Day written by Herbert Bury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Life to-Day My first inclination, when the entirely unexpected proposal of the Publishers came to me to write this book, was immediately to decline. There are so many well-known writers on Russia, whose books are an unfailing pleasure and source of information, that it seemed to me to be nothing less than presumption to add to their number. But when I was assured that there seems to be a great desire just now for a book which, as the Publishers expressed it, "should not attempt an elaborate sketch of the country, nor any detailed description of its system of government and administration, or any exhaustive study of the Russian Church, and yet should give the impressions of a sympathetic observer of some of the chief aspects of Russian Life which are likely to appeal to an English Churchman," I felt that I might venture to attempt it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Russians at Home and the Russians Abroad, Vol. 1

Author : H. Sutherland Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484813600
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book The Russians at Home and the Russians Abroad, Vol. 1 written by H. Sutherland Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Russians at Home and the Russians Abroad, Vol. 1: Sketches, Unpolitical and Political, of Russian Life Under Alexander II A long preface is sometimes a worse evil than even a big book and the two volumes now offered to the public form a work of rather formidable dimensions. The author has nothing to say about them except that the first volume is Wholly unpolitical, and that it consists for the most part of chapters selected, and in many cases abridged, from a book published not many years after the accession of the Emperor Alexander II., under the title of the Russians at Home While. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Letters from Russia

Author : Marquis de Custine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141394528
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Russia written by Marquis de Custine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.

My Russian Year (Classic Reprint)

Author : Rothay Reynolds
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331600926
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book My Russian Year (Classic Reprint) written by Rothay Reynolds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Russian Year In allowing me to reprint the two Tales Dmitri told Me, and to make use of one or two other pieces which originally appeared in the Daily News. I have also to acknowledge my indebted ness to an admirable paper on the life of Mme Breshkovsky by Mr. Ernesto Poole, which first appeared in the American Outlook. The setting of the two folk-tales referred to above is imaginary. With this exception I have tried to record incidents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Russian Comedy of Errors

Author : George Kennan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331265507
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book A Russian Comedy of Errors written by George Kennan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Russian Comedy of Errors: With Other Stories and Sketches of Russian Life The expression of gravity in Gordon's face deepened. Laying down his cigarette, he closed the window softly, lowered the transom over the door, and then, returning to his seat, looked searchingly, at his friend and inquired in a low tone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tolstoy

Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547545878
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy written by Rosamund Bartlett and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.

Rasputin and the Russian Revolution (Classic Reprint)

Author : Princess Catherine Radziwill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331251494
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Rasputin and the Russian Revolution (Classic Reprint) written by Princess Catherine Radziwill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rasputin and the Russian Revolution Sian Court was published the Romanoffs were reign ing and, considering the fact that she was living in Russia at the time, the author of it, had her identity become known, would have risked being subjected to grave annoyances, and even being sent to that dis tant Siberia where Nicholas II is at present exiled. It was therefore deemed advisable to produce that work as a posthumous one, and Count Paul Vassili was represented as having died before the publication of his Memoirs. This however was not the case, be cause On the contrary he went on collecting infor mation as to all that was taking place at the Russian Court as well as in the whole of Russia, and, consign ing this information to a diary, he went on writing. If one remembers, Count Vassili distinctly foresaw and prophesied in his book most of the things that have occurred since it was published. This fact will perhaps give added interest to the present account Of the Russian Revolution which now sees the light of day for the first time. Though devoid of every thing sensational or scandalous it will prove interest ing to those who have cared for the other books of Count Vassili, for it contains nothing but the truth, and has been compiled chieﬂy out of the narrations of the principal personages connected in some way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Russian Politics (Classic Reprint)

Author : Herbert Metford Thompson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656783014
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Russian Politics (Classic Reprint) written by Herbert Metford Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Politics This book attempts to put the English reader in a position to understand the conditions of life and the problems of government that exist in the Russia of to day. Some knowledge of the aspects of the country, the ethnological descent of its inhabitants, and the story of the rise and maintenance of their autocratic form of government, seems necessary as a preliminary to such understanding, and the first three chapters of the volume are devoted to an exposition of these matters; but since modern political life is the subject of the book, they have not been allowed to expand into greater detail than will be helpful to the object in View. The reforms of the early years of Alexander II. Have been treated much more fully, for almost all the political questions of the day in Russia are intimately connected with them and with their subsequent partial abrogation witnessed during the reactionary period of the last quarter of a century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dawn in Russia

Author : Henry W. Nevinson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365283577
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Dawn in Russia written by Henry W. Nevinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dawn in Russia: Or Scenes in the Russian Revolution I have not attempted in this book to do more than describe some of the scenes which I witnessed in Russia during the winter of I905 - Igo6, while I was acting there as special correspondent for the Daily Cbrouicle. For the most part, the descriptions are given in the same words which I wrote down at the time, either for my own memory or for the news paper. But the whole has been re-arranged and rewritten, while certain scenes have been added for which a daily paper has no room. I have also inserted between the scenes a bare outline of the principal events that were happening elsewhere, so that the Significance of what I saw may be more easily understood, and the dates become something better than mere numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Russian Affairs (Classic Reprint)

Author : Geoffrey Drage
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265506134
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Russian Affairs (Classic Reprint) written by Geoffrey Drage and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Affairs The student of history cannot but as whether the old drama of the decline and fall of a great empire is to be enacted over again, or whether the Russian nation possesses an innate vigour which will enable it to overcome the enormous difficulties of the struggle on which it has even now entered. The whole of Northern Asia, with the exception of Korea, and a great part of Central A sia, are now Russian territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

St. Petersburg (Classic Reprint)

Author : George Dobson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331748901
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book St. Petersburg (Classic Reprint) written by George Dobson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from St. Petersburg The Author, Mr. G. Dobson, who was for many years correspondent of the T imes in St. Petersburg, aims at giving as complete an account of the Russian capital as could possibly be contained within the comparatively small compass of the present volume. The following chapters accord ingly include the history of the origin of St. Petersburg, an explanation of the political ideas and objects connected with it, a critical descrip tion of the city as it appears to-day and as it impressed other writers in earlier years, and sketches of the life and types of its inhabitants. Some little attention has also been given to a somewhat neglected part of the story of its origin, that is to say, to the state of affairs in this region long before the time of Peter the Great, which rendered the creation of such a settled basis on the Neva a vital necessity for Russia's progress on European lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Russian Traits and Terrors

Author : E. B. Lanin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484609791
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Russian Traits and Terrors written by E. B. Lanin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russian Traits and Terrors: A Faithful Picture of the Russia of to-Day I may state here, what should be obvious enough without any express declaration, that neither these general asser tions nor the facts that I Shall presently bring forward to illustrate and support them, imply anything in the nature of censure or reproach. To blame a people for habits which are the outcome of conditions over which they had practically no control, would argue ignorance of their his tory and of the nature of morality itself. It would be just as reasonable to condemn the moth for eating woollen stuffs, or to wax indignant at the depravity of those female spiders of certain species of Epeirides, who coolly devour the males as soon as the latter have discharged their natural functions, as to allot praise or blame for conduct and principles which are practically as independent of the will of the nation as its physical type. One Should bring to the study of the ways and habits of men, no less than of animals, if the results are to be worth having, a spirit of intelligent curi osity equally free from prejudice and passion. When, therefore, I affirm that a careful survey of the facts of Russian social life warrants - nay, imperatively calls for - the employment of a standard of judgment widely dif ferent from that which we are wont to apply to other European people - the Russians being, as Burke would say, still in the gristle, not yet hardened in the bone of manhood - I merely state a fact which can at worst dis credit their spiritual or political guides, if proved to be the result of their negligence or malice. And even a Slight acquaintance with the facts of the case is sufficient to Show that an abyss divides Russian civilization from that of Western Europe on the one hand, and that this is, to a very considerable extent, the result of what may be termed artificially arrested development on the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.