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VII.

Feelings in regard to prospects of war.—Longing for
defeat.—Antecedents of the present condition.—Court circles.—Social
influence of Herzen and Katkóf.—The abolition of
serfdom.—The significance of the suppression of the Polish
insurrection.—Fundamental, political, and religious re-action.—Terrorists and
attempts at assassination.—Foreign and domestic policies. 108

VIII.

The Russian press.—Newspapers and periodicals.—Contemporary
men of talent, older and younger.—Original men in science and
literature.—The Russian public and its receptiveness 136

IX.

Art.—Russian characteristic and quality of imitation in
architecture and the fine arts.—History of the art of building and of
religious pictures.—Development of the art of painting from
the time of Catherine to the present time: Brylof, Ivánof,
Kramskoï, and Riepin.—Sculpture: Antopolski.—Industrial
art.—Relation between the course of development of art and
literature 156

LITERATURE.

I.

Herodotus and Ovid concerning the country and its
climate.—Herodotus on the customs and myths of the
Scythians.—Resemblance between a Scythian myth and one related in the
bîlinî.—Kola-Xais and Mikula. —Ovid’s account of the Black Sea coast
and its inhabitants.—Chronicle of Nestor.—Parallel between
the accounts of Nestor and the Icelandic sagas.—Scandinavians
and Russians.—Slavic mythology.—The bîlinî.—Parallel
between the contents of these and the old Norse myths and
traditions.—The song of Igor.—Its characteristics, and extracts
from it 177

II.

The Russian national literature.—The popular ballads of Little
Russia and Great Russia.—Their characteristics.—Russian
love.—Lomonósof, the founder of the modern
literature.—How far he is a typical Russian.—Derzhavin and
classicism.—Influence of Holberg on the Russian theatre.—Zhukovski and
romanticism 204

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VII.
Feelings in regard to prospects of war.—Longing for defeat.—Antecedents of the present condition.—Court circles.—Social influence of Herzen and Katkóf.—The abolition of serfdom.—The significance of the suppression of the Polish insurrection.—Fundamental, political, and religious re-action.—Terrorists and attempts at assassination.—Foreign and domestic policies.	108
VIII.
The Russian press.—Newspapers and periodicals.—Contemporary men of talent, older and younger.—Original men in science and literature.—The Russian public and its receptiveness	136
IX.
Art.—Russian characteristic and quality of imitation in architecture and the fine arts.—History of the art of building and of religious pictures.—Development of the art of painting from the time of Catherine to the present time: Brylof, Ivánof, Kramskoï, and Riepin.—Sculpture: Antopolski.—Industrial art.—Relation between the course of development of art and literature	156
LITERATURE.
I.
Herodotus and Ovid concerning the country and its climate.—Herodotus on the customs and myths of the Scythians.—Resemblance between a Scythian myth and one related in the bîlinî.—Kola-Xais and Mikula. —Ovid’s account of the Black Sea coast and its inhabitants.—Chronicle of Nestor.—Parallel between the accounts of Nestor and the Icelandic sagas.—Scandinavians and Russians.—Slavic mythology.—The bîlinî.—Parallel between the contents of these and the old Norse myths and traditions.—The song of Igor.—Its characteristics, and extracts from it	177
II.
The Russian national literature.—The popular ballads of Little Russia and Great Russia.—Their characteristics.—Russian love.—Lomonósof, the founder of the modern literature.—How far he is a typical Russian.—Derzhavin and classicism.—Influence of Holberg on the Russian theatre.—Zhukovski and romanticism	204