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INTRODUCTION.
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The cause of my trip to Russia in 1887 was an
invitation by the Russian Authors’ Association in St.
Petersburg to deliver a course of lectures in French. They
proposed to make all the arrangements, if I would give
one-fourth of the receipts to their poor-fund.
While I was in St. Petersburg, I received a similar
invitation from Count Kapnist, the curator of the
university in Moscow, who also asked for the same portion
of the receipts for the benefit of the poor students.
On my way to St. Petersburg I also visited Helsingfors.
After my lectures in Moscow, I spent some time in a
villa in Central Russia, twenty hours’ journey by rail
south of Moscow. From there I went to Smolensk, and
from Smolensk to Warsaw.
Thus in three months I became acquainted with widely
separated parts of the country, and some of the most
important of this great empire. I had the opportunity
of observing both city and country life. I saw Russia
both in winter and summer garb. The peculiar
conditions under which I travelled brought me in connection
with several hundred people of different races and of
different classes in society; I met residents of Great
and Little Russia, Finns and Swedes, Armenians and
Poles, of both sexes, and was brought into close relations
with fashionable and common people, conservatives and
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