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represent the whole animal world crowded together, are
more amusing, though on the other hand, less artistic
than the Danish. In Moscow there is a large group of
the two liberators from the yoke of the Poles, the
butcher Minin and Prince Pozharsky, whose celebrity
dates from 1612, and to whom also a memorial is erected
in Novgorod. There is besides this a modern statue of
Pushkin, which is not remarkably good. Smolénsk is the
birthplace of the musical composer Glinka, and there is
found a statue of him, a square-built little man, not
particularly suitable for the plastic art. Nevertheless, they
had the original idea of putting slender cross-lines in the
iron railing which is around the memorial, to represent
the musical staff, and thus encircle the composer with
his best known melodies.
While other European states do something, even if not
all they might, for the instruction of the people, the
government here dislikes popular education, and puts
innumerable obstacles in the way, — nay, even does what it
can to oppose it. As has already been said, the cities do
not afford nearly as many opportunities for the
instruction and cultivation of the common people as the cities
of other countries. As in the country the fight against
knowledge can be carried on with much greater emphasis,
a still more appalling ignorance is the result, in spite of
the excellent natural capacities of the people.
It may be said without exaggeration that there is now,
as in the time of the Tsar Nicholas, a constant exertion
on the part of the rulers to make real knowledge
impossible and to destroy all individual and independent will.
Three kinds of books are published in Russia:—First,
the forbidden, that is, nearly all valuable literature,
except when with ineffable art and resignation it is
shaped so as exactly to suit the demands of the Russian
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