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CHAPTER VI.

SPRING SCENES IN SAMARA.

On the Cars—Conditions of Russian Travel—A Prison Car—Relief Work
in the City of Samara—Railroad Punctuality—Mushik
Hospitality—A Molokhan Meeting—My Lodgings with Count Lyeff Tolstoi—Famine
Scenes—A Wakeful Night—“Vot Klop!”—Visit to Petrovka—In a
Snowdrift—Von Birukov—Feeding on Clay—“He must be the
Devil!”—Orphaned Children—Upper-class Opinion and Government
Opposition—An Address of Thanks—Birukov and the Priest—A
Lenten Service—The Popes and the Villagers—A Cheap
Marriage—The Pope and the Bell—A Peasant’s Burial—The Burnt
Sheepskin—Fine Feathers—The Rouble Note—Eastertide—Visit to a
Horse-Farm—A Stormy Night—Black Thoughts—A Peasant
Superstition—“Christos Voskresje!”—Lack of Seed—A Farewell Visit—Count
Lyeff Tolstoi—The Honest Physician! 75

CHAPTER VII.

A POLICY OF DEATH.

Ignorance and Superstition Due to the Government—Repression of
Schools—Schools under the Priests—An Extensive Curriculum—Attitude to
Private Schools—An Educated Mushik—The Story of
Semjanov—Educational Statistics—A Battle of Circulars—Ignorance and
Disease—Superstition—Official Folly—Practical Consequences—A Sister of
the People—The Hospital—Ravages of Disease—Responsibilities of
the Church and Government 115

CHAPTER VIII.

A DAY IN A FAMINE-STRICKEN VILLAGE.

(Specially contributed by P. von Birukoff.)

Early Dawn—Starved Horses—Applicants for Relief—A Terrible
Story—In the Eating Room—Simplicity of Human Wants—A Hidden
Izba—A Scorbutic Family—More Applicants—Weariness and its
Effects—A Tangle of Thoughts 127

CHAPTER IX.

ON THE VOLGA.

The Steamer Puschkin—Soldiers’ Songs—Peasants “Hunting”—A
Colporteur—British and Foreign Bible Society—Influence of the
Bible—A Peasant’s Story of his Conversion—A “Cross Procession”—The
Water Road to Exile—The City of Kasan—Tatars—Nishni
Novgorod—A Sapient Governor—A Liberal Professor of Theology—The
Advantages of Orthodoxy—Feast Days in Russia—An Intelligent Official 140

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CHAPTER VI.
SPRING SCENES IN SAMARA.
On the Cars—Conditions of Russian Travel—A Prison Car—Relief Work in the City of Samara—Railroad Punctuality—Mushik Hospitality—A Molokhan Meeting—My Lodgings with Count Lyeff Tolstoi—Famine Scenes—A Wakeful Night—“Vot Klop!”—Visit to Petrovka—In a Snowdrift—Von Birukov—Feeding on Clay—“He must be the Devil!”—Orphaned Children—Upper-class Opinion and Government Opposition—An Address of Thanks—Birukov and the Priest—A Lenten Service—The Popes and the Villagers—A Cheap Marriage—The Pope and the Bell—A Peasant’s Burial—The Burnt Sheepskin—Fine Feathers—The Rouble Note—Eastertide—Visit to a Horse-Farm—A Stormy Night—Black Thoughts—A Peasant Superstition—“Christos Voskresje!”—Lack of Seed—A Farewell Visit—Count Lyeff Tolstoi—The Honest Physician!	75
CHAPTER VII.
A POLICY OF DEATH.
Ignorance and Superstition Due to the Government—Repression of Schools—Schools under the Priests—An Extensive Curriculum—Attitude to Private Schools—An Educated Mushik—The Story of Semjanov—Educational Statistics—A Battle of Circulars—Ignorance and Disease—Superstition—Official Folly—Practical Consequences—A Sister of the People—The Hospital—Ravages of Disease—Responsibilities of the Church and Government	115
CHAPTER VIII.
A DAY IN A FAMINE-STRICKEN VILLAGE.
(Specially contributed by P. von Birukoff.)
Early Dawn—Starved Horses—Applicants for Relief—A Terrible Story—In the Eating Room—Simplicity of Human Wants—A Hidden Izba—A Scorbutic Family—More Applicants—Weariness and its Effects—A Tangle of Thoughts	127
CHAPTER IX.
ON THE VOLGA.
The Steamer Puschkin—Soldiers’ Songs—Peasants “Hunting”—A Colporteur—British and Foreign Bible Society—Influence of the Bible—A Peasant’s Story of his Conversion—A “Cross Procession”—The Water Road to Exile—The City of Kasan—Tatars—Nishni Novgorod—A Sapient Governor—A Liberal Professor of Theology—The Advantages of Orthodoxy—Feast Days in Russia—An Intelligent Official	140