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same time the humor with which we in Denmark amuse
ourselves in the parks on a spring clay, was wanting. The
lines between the different classes of society, also, are
nowhere with us, outside of the metropolis, so sharply
drawn as here.
While in cities like London, Paris, and Berlin the
museums and other places of education are constantly
filled by the common people, seeking instruction suited
to their capacity, and for whom, even when they possess
only the most moderate abilities, the use of such places
has been made easy, nothing whatever corresponding to
it is to be found in Russia. The Hermitage in St.
Petersburg, with its large and valuable collection of objects of
art, is commonly inaccessible and little visited. The
museums in Moscow are also rarely open, and have even
less of an instructive character. Not even the memorials
in the large cities have any educational qualities. They
glorify the Tsar and the generals or national heroes, and
are designed only to aid in the deification of the Tsar and
national self-esteem. In this respect they are behind
Berlin, where, since the establishment of the kingdom,
no small number of statues have been erected which
represent neither kings nor warriors. The re-action in
Russia even at the present moment is so great that even
the possession of a statuette of Falconet’s Peter the
Great is taken as a sign of disloyalty rather than the
opposite: Peter was a man of the West, a European.
Besides the emperors and generals in bronze, only one
single statue is to be found in St. Petersburg. It is a
very unpretending and modest memorial of the fabulist
Krylof, in the imperial summer park, the playground for
children. It is placed just as that of Hans Christian
Andersen is in the Rosenburg Park, only the Russian
statue is better, and the various reliefs on the base, which
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