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VI.
In Russia, as elsewhere, it is not the official world with
which the foreigner has the greatest desire to become
acquainted. He seeks in every large city, as soon as
possible, to be introduced to those whom the inhabitants
themselves regard as the élite. As I have elsewhere
expressed it: There is always a great difference between
the tea which the Chinese drink and that wrhich is sold
throughout the rest of the world. He who is fond of
tea will in every China seek for the tea drunk by the
natives.
The foreigner, who, after having become acquainted
writh one Slavic race, comes to another, soon sees that, in
order to understand the new race thoroughly, he must
make use of the one already known as a standard of
comparison. For only thus can he find the resemblance,
without which all comparison is meaningless. By
comparison with the qualities of the intellectual aristocracy
in Warsaw could the peculiarities of the most advanced
and interesting persons in St. Petersburg and Moscow be
grasped in their delicacy. The Russians have very few
qualities in common with the Scandinavians and the
Germans; and even with the Finns, who live under the
same rule, and generally use the same language, there is
hardly any similarity. The attitude of Finland to Russia
has been admirably compared to that of an honest, quiet
tradesman, who has lived sensibly but monotonously and
a little tediously, to that of a rollicking student, at one
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