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conditions are even more unfavorable. Although it has
been constantly forbidden them to attend the universities
of Russia, to say nothing of passing examinations
and taking degrees, still no young women in Europe
crave a scientific education like those of Russia. About
ten years ago, some liberal professors in St. Petersburg
and others in Moscow, under the leadership of Professor
Guerrier, established a kind of university for women in
each city. The professors of the universities and men
eminent for their literary culture (like Vesselovski and
Storosyenko) gave their time without pay, and young
girls from seventeen to twenty and upwards came in
crowds to hear good lectures on science, mathematics,
history, literature, and some other branches. As a
matter of course, these lectures were neutral in politics.
For some time, a dislike for this course had been
manifested on the part of the Tsar. For when the Tsaritsa
was asked to allow them to ornament the diplomas not
only with medallion portraits of the Tsaritsas Catherine
and Elizabeth, but also with hers, permission was
refused, so that it was necessary to put the date in the
space which was reserved for the portrait of the
Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna. A year ago last spring the
universities for women received a blow in a communication
stating that they would be closed from and after the
month of June, 1887, and that all instruction of that kind
would be suspended. The expression that he wished to
send all the Russian women back home is, in Russia,
generally attributed to a person occupying a very high position.
This is the condition in which the most intelligent
part of the youth grow up.
It was from feeling that in such conditions all exertion
to attain a higher position must fail, that Gárshin
has a novel with the following argument.
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