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disappeared without leaving a trace. But the survivors have
not lived in vain.
As to the outlook for the future, I shall not venture on
any prophecies of my own, especially as the views with
regard to this subject are very much divided even among
men possessing the most thorough knowledge of the country
and its people. I shall therefore limit myself to some
quotations from one of the most able and reliable
authorities—namely, N. Yadrintseff:
“Our colonies still suffer from want of the most
necessary social rights. In this respect we have sinned much.
Without social progress our colonies, instead of ripening
into a flourishing dependence which would be of the
greatest importance to the mother-country, will continually
remain the same barbarous, hopeless, and forgotten regions
as hitherto.
“It is not improbable that Siberia, by an increased
export combined with a continued neglect of its own inner
wants, will get into a still more hopeless condition than
that prevailing in modern European Russia. The export
of the grain of European Russia, which has been so much
talked of, exceeds its present—not, under better conditions,
its possible—producing power, whereby the producers, the
peasants, even in the very richest grain-growing provinces
are ruined; and this export, which through the lack of
capital in the interior of the country is carried to the
utmost limits, by no means ameliorates the lot of the people.
Under these specifically Russian conditions—namely, lack
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