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CHAPTER XXIV.
MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL CULTURE IN SIBERIA.
The America of the Old World—The Tercentenary of Siberia—Her Needs
formulated—A System of reckless Plunder—Illiteracy of the Russian
Conquerors—Persecutions of the Colonists—The “Gold-Barons” and
“Vodka-Kings”—Stagnation of Industry—Education—Influence of the
Swedish Prisoners of War—Pioneers of Culture in Siberia—Yadrintseff
on the Future of the Country.
It is only natural to make comparisons between Siberia
and North America. Siberia, taken as a whole, possesses
natural riches comparable to those of America, and has,
as a colony, the advantage of not being separated from
the mother-country by any sea.
“Siberia is not a country suitable only as a place of exile,”
says the Novoye Vremya in an article on the country at its
tercentenary jubilee in 1883. “Siberia possesses an immense
extent of land for colonisation by the surplus population
in Russia which must be created by the present agrarian
system. Here we have our United States, and there is
no country so happily situated as ours, which does not
need to send its emigrants across the sea, but settles them
in its immediate neighbourhood.”
But it is only with regard to natural resources and
possibilities of development that the parallel holds good
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