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products are the reverse. The trees, even in the forests,
are not tall, and the whole animal world has no striking
feature.
The decidedly essential feature which characterizes
Russia is uniformity notwithstanding the immensity of
everything. Although the country is enormously large,
it is monotonous. Russia is a land not only of
far-reaching plains, long and broad rivers, uniform climate, but
also of regular geological formation. This immense
country also constitutes one organic unit, since the
woodland cannot do without the grain-land, the grain-land
without the steppes, nor the steppes without the
woodland. The steppes need the trees, and the woodland
needs the cattle. And so also the country near the
coast feels the want of the interior, and the interior of
the coast. As Count Moltke has said, in his “Letters
from Russia,” “No part can do without the other: the
forests of the north cannot dispense with the
grain-producing south, nor can the industrious interior spare
either of the other parts.” The vision that this great
empire will be broken up into a number of small
kingdoms will therefore hardly be realized. What nature
has united geographically, man cannot separate; and
what it has separated, man cannot unite. The
geography of the country, which has prevented the union of
the three Scandinavian nations into one, keeps this sixth
part of the earth together.[1]
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