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MAIDEN-DREAMS. MARRIAGE-CEREMONY
When Sonia[1] was about seventeen, her family
spent a winter in St Petersburg.
About this time the intelligent part of the
young generation in Russia was stirred by a
lively movement, particularly remarkable in the
young girls, a movement for promoting mental
liberty, development and progress in their native
country.
These aspirations were not nihilistic, scarcely
even political in their tendency. They arose from
a craving for knowledge and light; a craving
which had spread so widely, that hundreds of
girls of the best families went out to study at
foreign universities. As the parents generally
opposed this spirit in their daughters, the young
women had found a very peculiar and
[1] Diminutive of Sophia.
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