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in St. Petersburg, without the compromising passage,
was laid before Alexander, who was a constant reader
of the paper, a week or two later the Tsar received the
original number in an envelope, with a few lines which
gave the reason why it was sent in this manner. So
widely spread was his newspaper, that in Nizhni alone,
in 1859, one hundred thousand copies, which had been
introduced from Asia, were seized by the police.
There was at once formed a group of parties with
different shades of opposition or progress. There was
the opposition to the Germans flourishing at the court,
on the part of the higher nobility who had been set
aside by Nicholas in the interest of absolute power.
There was the opposition of the Slavophile, who, as
unaristocratic as possible, idolized the people. Finally,
there was Herzen’s, Ogaref’s, and, in a short time, the
sceptical, radical, and gradually socialistic opposition of
Bakunin, who had escaped from Siberia. And all these
groups of opposition, under these conditions, for the first
time in Russia created a press.
Until the forties there had not existed in the great
empire any other press than the official. Under
Nicholas the newspaper, “The Russian Bee,” an academical
organ, which was conducted in the spirit of the old
classical poets, Lomonósof and Derzhavin, carried on the
same war against the romantic tendency inaugurated
by Pushkin as Oginski’s organ in Warsaw had carried
on against Mickiewicz and his friends. It was the great
Kussian critic Byelinski who gained a hearing for the
national poetry of the nineteenth century. It was
under the control of the literary impressario,
Krayevski, who is still living, that the newspaper “The
Annals of our Fatherland” was published, and it was
sustained by the genial articles of Byelinski. When he
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