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RM2AM6R4R–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ion for a grown-up and egotistical man, I sympathizedwith all the men who were in this situation, and tried toexplain to myself the character, degree, and directionof their mental capacity, in order to judge from thoseconsiderations the degree of their moral suffering. Thisyunker, or reduced officer, by his restless look and by theintentional and constant change of expression, which Ihad noticed in him, appeared to me to be a very cleverand extremely egotistical, and, therefore, a very pitiable,man. Staff-Captain Sh proposed to us to play another game of s
RM2AWK7ET–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . tio^ ??????? ai ??? ??1? WHAT SHALL WE DO THEN? i ON THE MOS-COW CENSUS ;l COL-LECTED ARTICLES 5 5 By COUNT LEV N. tOLSTOY Translated from the Original Russian and Edited byLEO WIENER Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard Universlly
RM2ANFRB4–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . that I mightnot see him do it. He continued to speak, saying thathe felt that he was stOl able to rise again, if he had a manlike me to take interest in him. We were on the point of going to the tent in orderto lie down, when suddenly a bullet whizzed by us andlodged in the ground not far away. It was so strange, —this quiet, sleeping camp, our conversation, and suddenlythe inimical bullet, which, God knew whence, flew amidstour tents, — it was all so strange that I was for quiteawhile unable to account for what had happened. Our And ? 1 sud- .. :?? and ie
RM2AWK512–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . cal labour in the ocean of labourabsorbed by me, — the same astonishing and unexpectedanswer was received. It turned out that I needed only to make physicallabour a habitual condition of my life, in order that themajority of my false and expensive habits and needs dur-ing my physical idleness should without the least efforton my part naturally fall away from me. To say nothingof my habit of changing day into night and vice versa,and not to mention the bed, the garments, the conven-tional cleanliness, which with the physical labour aresimply impossible and
RM2ANJA1P–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . hat if heinsisted upon this, there would be no dmner, — and thathe had better not expect any. Thereupon he left, fearingthat she would keep her word, for she was capable ofanything. So this is what you get for living a good,moral life, he thought, looking at the shining, healthy,gay, and good-hearted presiding judge, who, spreadingwide his elbows, was with his beautiful white handsclawing his thick and long grayish side-whiskers on bothsides of his embroidered collar. He is always happyand content, and I suffer. The secretary entered, bringing some papers.
RM2ANFNE2–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ^MfSi.^imbt ^Kii^. DOMESTIC HAPPINESS 287 What terrible changes have taken place in this house,when you come to think of it! he said, stopping. Yes, said K^tya, with a sigh, and, covering thesamovar with the lid, looked at him, ready to burst outinto tears. I suppose you remember your papa, he turned to me. Not very much, I replied. How good it would have been for you now if he werewith you! he said, looking softly and thoughtfully atmy head above my eyes. I was very fond of yourfather! he added, softer still, and I thought that hiseyes became brighter. An
RM2AM6M8C–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . y flauntedhis hair, and asked me for a pourboire. No doubt, he didnot expect anything, for my refusal did not in the leastdisappoint him. He thanked me anyway, shoved his capback on his head, and said to me: Well, sir, God grantyou — and, jerking his reins and smacking his lips, hemoved away from us. Soon after Ignashka, too, swayedwith his whole back, and shouted to his horses. Againthe sound of the crunching hoofs, of the shouting, andof the bells took the place of the howling wind, whichbecame particularly audible whenever we stopped. For about fifteen
RM2AM6JW4–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . s, he who has not served in the cavalry will neverbe able to understand us fellows. He bestrode the chairand, thrusting forward his lower jaw, began to speak in abass voice. I would be riding in front of my squadron;under me a demon, and not a horse, rearing all the time,and I upon it, a demon myself. Up would gallop thecommander of the squadron at inspection. Lieutenant,says he, please, without you there will be nothing, — leadout the squadron in parade fashion. Very well, and Iwould look around and shout at my whiskered fellows —The devil take it, it was
RM2ANFPMD–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . usly flauntedhis hair, and asked me for a pourboire. No doubt, he didnot expect anything, for my refusal did not in the leastdisappoint him. He thanked me anyway, shoved his capback on his head, and said to me: Well, sir, God grantyou — and, jerking his reins and smacking his Hps, hemoved away from us. Soon after Ignashka, too, swayedwith his whole back, and shouted to his horses. Againthe sound of the crunching hoofs, of the shouting, andof the bells took the place of the howling wind, whichbecame particularly audible whenever we stopped. For about fiftee
RM2AWK5Y6–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ith her shoulder against the fence,and uselessly kept striking matches against the fence, andthrowing them away. I scanned her face. She wasindeed an abortion, but, as I thought, an old woman, — Igave her thirty years. The colour of her face was sallow ;her eyes, small, turbid, bloodshot; her nose knob-shaped;her lips crooked, slavering, and sunken at the corners;and a short strand of dry hair peeped out from under-neath her kerchief. Her waist was long and flat, andher arms and legs were short. I stopped opposite her. Shelooked at me and smiled, as though
RM2ANJ2MW–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . to one side,stuck it through the greasy opening of the scapulary, and,arranging his scanty hair, addressed the jurors. Eaise your right hands and put your fingers togetherlike this, he said, in the deliberate voice of an old man,hfting his plump hand, with dimples beneath every finger,and putting three fingers together. Now repeat afterme, he said, and began, I promise and swear by Al-mighty God, before His Holy Gospel and before the Life-giving Rood of the Lord, that in the case, in which — he said, making a pause after every sentence. Dont dropyour hand,
RM2AM6PMD–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . The Game of Skittles r/iotOf:^raviirf from /uii/iiii; hy /. [. /z/iiitrhich. A MOSCOW ACQUAINTANCE AT THE FRONT 7 and a certain terror, took Staff-Captain Sh aside and began to say something to him in a whisper. The good-natured staff-captain struck him in the abdomen withthe large, puffy palm of his hand and cried out in a loudvoice: Never mind, my friend, I will trust you. The game was ended and won by the party to whichthe low-ranked stranger belonged ; when it was his turn to ride on the back of one of our officers, Ensign D , the ensign blushed, walk
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RM2ANJB3B–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . re. As he recalled the previous evening, which he hadpassed at the house of the Korchagins, rich and dis-tinguished people, whose daughter, so all were convinced, hewas going to marry, he drew a sigh, and, throwing awayhis finished cigarette, was on the point of taking anotherout of his silver cigarette-holder; but he changed hismind, and, letting down from the bed his smooth whitefeet, found his way into his slippers; he threw over hisfull shoulders a silk morning-gown, and, striding rapidlyand heavily, walked into the adjoining dressing-room,which was sa
RM2ANJ419–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ??8??1 ??1? the presiding ?i I.elf, said themc.h- ^ ana book the cigarettes man. had had an d more in ? she was :?.?? said. -c ? . bthe could leuve. The Judges Photogravure from Painting by L. O. Pasternak. RESURRECTION 33 Tell him, then, if you see him, that we shall beginwith the poisoning case. Breve was the assistant prosecuting attorney who wasto prosecute at the present sitting. Upon reaching the corridor, the secretary met Breve.Eaising high his shoulders, he was almost running alongthe corridor; his uniform was unbuttoned, and he carriedhis portfol
RM2AWK672–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . a living in the city, which are soconstantly employed by those who make a living andby those who feed them, as something quite clear andcomprehensible ? I remember all the hundreds and thousands of citypeople, — both those who live well and those who are inneed, — with whom I spoke about their coming thither,and all without exception told me that they came herefrom the country to make a living; that Moscow neithersows nor reaps, but has wealth in heaps; that there wasplenty of everything in Moscow and that, therefore, theycould only in Moscow gain the mone
RM2AM6J19–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . racious, almost childhke, smile. Five minutes later he ceased being a guest, and becamea famiUar friend to all of us, even to the people, who, tojudge from their readiness to serve him, were very muchdehghted with his arrival. He acted quite differently from the neighbours whocame after mothers demise and who considered it neces-sary to keep silent and weep, while staying at our house;he, on the contrary, was talkative, merry, and did not saya word about mamma, so that at first this indifferenceappeared to me strange and even indecent in a man whowas so ne
RM2ANJ064–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . xoa arlJ rii ?1)?11?? XXVTIT. Nekhly6dov vf tl. ?? evening, but u went, icond act of the new fashi ^^ ? oon- os box was «ib onc«due respect to the ved -1? nitural vc oor was?jai and cold air -iie box were Mariette and a strange lady in a ^.-i ^ ?? —^^ ? ....;+..r.o^ r^^^ two men: ager.^ ? I tall man, with a st^ [ iJ Mariette in the Box Photogravure from Painting by L. O. Pasternak. RESURRECTION 441 impenetrable, hook-nosed face and a broad, military chest,padded with cotton and starched linen, and a light-com-plexioned, bald man, with a clean-shaven, dimpl
RM2ANFWAB–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . v^^ 158 00287 3361 UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY AA 001 044 691 2. BOSTON £ DANA ESTES &COMPANY £ PUBLISHERS EDITION DE LUXE Limited to One Thousand Copies,of which this is No....688 Copyright, igo4By Dana Estes & Company Entered at Stationers Hall Colonial Press : Electrotyped and Printed byC. H. Simonds& Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. ?. CONTENTS PAGE Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance at the Front . 1 The Snow-storm 35 Memoirs of a Marker 79 Two Hussars 103 Albert 189 From the Memoirs of Prince D. NEKHLYtJDOv . 229 Three Deaths 261 Domestic Happiness
RM2AM6N8P–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . (??????? ? A Circassiafi Photogravure from Ihotograph. A MOSCOW ACQUAINTANCE AT THE FRONT 31 soldier Andreev, who was doing sentry duty on thebattery, moved up toward me. I declare they have stolen up on us ! A fire could beseen down there, he said. The captain ought to be wakened, I said, looking atGviskov. He stood bent almost to the ground, and stammered,wishing to say something, This — is — disagree— very— funny. He said nothing more, and I did not see howand where he momentarily disappeared. In the captains tent a candle was hghted; there washeard the
RM2AM6NPT–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ight; anywhere will do me, — even on theground. While Nikita was getting the bed ready we rose, andagain walked up and down through the darkness alongthe battery. Guskovs head was actually very light, forthe two wine-glasses of brandy and the two glasses ofwine made him stagger. When we got up and walkedaway from the hght, I noticed that he put the ten-roublebill, which he had been holding in his hand during thepreceding conversation, into his pocket, so that I mightnot see him do it. He continued to speak, saying thathe felt that he was still able to rise
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RM2ANJ19N–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . d then ? Well, so she took Katerinas child and kept him forabout two weeks. He began to ail in her house. Was he a nice child ? asked Nekhlyudov. So nice that he ought to have had better care, butthat was not possible. He was just like you, added theold woman, blinking with her old eye. What weakened him so ? I suppose he did not getthe right food, What feeding could it be ? Consider that it was nother child. All she cared for was to get him there alive.She said that he died the moment she reached Moscowwith him. She brought a certificate about it, all inp
RM2ANJ0J3–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . elias, in whichthe visiting actress showed in a new fashion how con-sumptive women die. The theatre was filled. Mariettes box was at oncepointed out to Nekblyiidov, with due respect to theperson who was asking for it. In the corridor stood a liveried lackey. He bowedas to an acquaintance and opened the door. All the rows of the boxes opposite, with the figuressitting there and standing behind them, and the near-bybacks and the gray, half-gray, bald, and pomaded, fixed-upheads of those who were sitting in the orchestra circle,—all the spectators centred the
RM2AM6RHP–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ,»• w BOSTON £ DANA ESTES &COMPANY £ PUBLISHERS EDITION DE LUXE Limited to One Thousand Copies,of which this is No. .4.11 Copyright, igo4By Dana Estes & Company Entered at Stationers Hall Colonial Press : Electrotyped and Printed by? H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. D CONTENTS PAOE Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance at the Front . 1 The Snow-storm 35 Memoirs of a Marker 79 Two Hussars 103 Albert .......... 189 From the Memoirs of Prince D. Nekhlyudov . 229 Three Deaths ........ 261 Domestic Happiness ....... 281 POLIKtJSHKA 389 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PA
RM2AWK70R–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . BOSTON £ DANA ESTES &COMPANY £ PUBLISHERS EDITION DE LUXE Limited to One Thousand Copies,of which this is No. .41.1 Copyright, ig04By Dana Estes & Company Entered at Stationers Hall Colonial Press : Electrotyped and Printed by? H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE What Shall We Do Then? 3 On the Moscow Census 343 Introduction to the Collected Articles, What Is THE Truth in Art? .,..., 357 To the Dear Youth 363 What a Christian May Do, and What Not . 371 Letter to N. N. (To Engelhard) .... 377 Introduction to T. M. Bondar^vs Teaching . 39
RM2ANJ257–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . lowly, letting the hurrying visitorspass by him, experiencing mixed feelings of terror beforethe evil-doers who were locked up here, of compassion forthose innocent people who, like the boy of yesterday andlike Katyusha, must be confined in it, and of timidityand contrition before the meeting which awaited him.Upon leaving this first room, the warden at the otherend was saying something; but Nekhlyudov was lost inthought and did not pay any attention to what he wassaying; he continued to go in the direction where mostvisitors were going, that is, to the me
RM2ANFT4A–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . is situation, and tried toexplain to myself the character, degree, and directionof their mental capacity, in order to judge from thoseconsiderations the degree of their moral suffering. Thisyunker, or reduced officer, by his restless look and by theintentional and constant change of expression, which Ihad noticed in him, appeared to me to be a very cleverand extremely egotistical, and, therefore, a very pitiable,man. Staff-Captain Sh proposed to us to play another game of skittles, the penalty for the losing party to be, inaddition to the ride on the back,
RM2ANJ1KN–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ; pie who, like the bo> V. .-.-1. ? -bought ^ i Uhnst ?I visitors .. ..beadwas used 4 01 voices nier; Visiting Day at the Prison Photograv7tre fiom Fainting by L. O. Pasternak. RESURRECTION 209 the room into two parts, he understood what the matterwas. The room, with the windows in the back, wasdivided into two, not by one, but by two wire screensthat ran from the ceiling down to the floor. Betweenthe screens walked the wardens. Beyond the screenswere the prisoners, and on this side, the visitors. Betweenthe two parties were the two screens, and about e
RM2ANJ2E1–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . I •!s.U-«^1?^?? .(> ,. fS ?•-(,!U, -.>v,., •.??,,?.,? isanu J case, in , tlie colonel.as the * The Jury Photograiure frovi Painting hy L. O. Pasternak. RESURRECTION 43 as though with undue zeal and with an expression whichsaid, There is nothing to prevent my speaking aloud;others again spoke in a whisper, and fell behind the wordsof the priest, and then, as if frightened, hastened to catchup with him; some held their three fingers firmly folded,and flaunted them, as though they were afraid of freeingsomething from their hands; others loosened
RM2ANJBW0–The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ncing steps walked behindthe chief warden. They descended the stone staircase,passed by the mens cells, which were even more mal-odorous and noisy than the womens, and from whichthey were everywhere watched by eyes at the loopholesin the doors: they entered the office, where two soldiersof the guard, with their guns, were waiting for them. The clerk, who was sitting there, handed to one of thesoldiers a document, which was saturated by tobaccosmoke, and, pointing to the prisoner, said, Take her!The soldier, a Nizhni-Novgorod peasant, with a red, pock-marke
RM2CEDGDF–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. d of April,and there is also talk of laying a railway across upon the ice, asis done each year from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt; but pro-bably all depends upon the success of the ice-breaking steamer. If this accomplishesits purpose anothersimilar vessel will bebuilt, for obviouslythe entire Trans-Con-tinental servicewould otherwise bestaked upon one shipnever getting out oforder the whole sea-son. The Yermak,however — the ice-breaker also built bySir William Arm-strong, Whit
RM2CEDC0A–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. hens, cats,dogs, and a few little fluffy buffalo-calves all clustered in theshelter of these house-fronts, and on the roof huge oval basketsof maize-cobs shone golden, very often with the owner seatedsmoking beside his store of winter provender. At Dushet we spent some time trying to get into the castleof Prince Tschliaief, which stood upon the hill, white, castel-lated, looking proudly across the valley at the little town withits grim, plain red boxes of new Russian barracks
RM2CEDDY3–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ritain and Russia draw the sword, andthe masses of Moscovy march singing across it, to the Cas-pian, to find their graveson the banks of the Indus? Yet this httle land, inspite of its surpassing in-terest from every point ofview, remains compara-tively unknown. It canbe reached almost inluxury, and on its mainroutes the most delicatedame need suffer no unduediscomfort. In the wholeof Russia there is not anhotel so clean and pleasantas the Hotel de Londresat Tiflis. I cannot t
RM2CEM7YG–. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. were closed. The streetsand alleys were deserted. The air reeked with fumes andsmoke. Now and then he met Eussians with restlessand timid faces and Frenchmen with an uncityhke, camplook, walking in the middle of the streets. Both lookedin surprise at Pierre. In addition to his great size andfatness, and the strange, gloomHy concentrated and suffer-ing expression of his face and whole figure, the Eussianslooked at Pierre because they could not make out to whatcondition that man might belong. The Frenchmen, onthe contrary, followed him with their eyes, beca
RM2CED3GF–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ficially takingup these insults and thus bring-ing them to an instant stop, ordered all our Consuls to absentthemselves on public occasions. This order was the result of anexceedingly gross insult offered to our Consul in Moscow by aRussian General at an official party given by the Governor-Gen-eral there—an insult which compelled him to rise, seek his wifeat another table, proceed to the table where the Grand Dukeand the Grand Duchess were sitting at supper, make his bows,an
RM2CDFH9H–. The complete works of Count Tolstoy . ONAL LIBRARY FACILITY AA 001 044 699 5 ii.. ;i It 11 It ti??•?? 11 ?|! !i 1 ? -????! Will tlti Wtb. iliiiiliiiii» -Hit;: iiiijpjj iSiiil. BOSTON £ DANA ESTES &COMPANY £ PUBLISH ERS EDITION DE LUXE Limited to One Thousand Copies,of which this is No...588 Copyright, ig04By Dana Estes & Company Entered at Stationers^ Hall Colonial Press : Electrotyped and Printed by? H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE ^^ The clerk beat Sidors face until the blood came {The Candle, see page 397) . Frontispiece Whose knife is this ? . . . .73
RM2CEDM96–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. tion of the common people of Russia to their Sove-reign. As you go higher in the scale the fact remains, but on adifferent basis. Official rank—tcliin—is the standard of position—a greater or less tchin determines a mans honour and influence,and of course all conceivable tchin culminates in the Tsar. Ifyou have not yourself a high tchin, you must be protected bysomebody who has. Officials of high rank will hardly deign tonotice you at one minute, and the next they are wholly
RM2CEDMKT–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. e, as well as in history and religioustradition, Moscow is the heart of Russia. The old quarter, insidethe walls, known as the Chinese Town—the only Chinese init are a few tea merchants—is packed close with business officesand banks. The streets hum with the steps of hurrying buyersand sellers. At noon the Exchange is crowded with brokers andmerchants, a remarkable proportion of them speaking German,with a sprinkling of Chinese, Persians, andstrange faces and head-gear from T
RM2CED5P7–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. THIC TOMB OF TAMKKLANE—THE UllKR CHAMBER mosque of the Shah Zindah, or Living Saint, a martyred saintof Islam, who is to arise again in the hour of the triumph of hisfailh. You enter it through a blue and white-tiled gateway, andpass by a marble stair between a double row of tombs of Timursrelatives and generals. To the left, when I visited it, the verysacred mosque was crowded with kneeling worshippers, all bow-ing together like a wave as the leading niollali chanted the cre
RM2CEM81P–. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. зг hie abK VOICP. his eai Vereshchagin before Rostopchin Photogravure from Paintittg by A. Kivshenko. WAR AND PEACE 495 crowd and, as though despairing at the sight of the ex-pressions which he read on the faces of the men, hesmiled sadly and timidly, and, again dropping his head,changed his position on the steps. He has betrayed his Tsar and his country ; he hasdelivered himself to Bonaparte ; he alone of all the Rus-sians has disgraced the name of a Russian, and from himMoscow is perishing, said Rostopchin, in an even, piercingvoice. He suddenly cast a
RM2CEDK53–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. rrested or banished you ? I cannot tell,he answered, and then, after a moments pause he added, slowly,in a tone of much solemnity : I wish they would. It would bea great joy to me. The general opinion among advanced Rus-sians is that the police are restrained in this instance by the world-wide scandal that any harsh treatment of Tolstoy would cause.But I am inclined to think that Tolstoys influence, which is pro-bably greater out of Russia than in it, being almost confined to
RM2CEDE99–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ot, though 1 have visited prisons,civilised and uncivilised, in many parts of the world, to seehuman nature at such a low ebb, and the faces of these men,from wild beast to vacant idiot, haunted me for days.Guilty or innocent of any particular crime, they couldhardly be other, with few exceptions, than a curse to society.From this point of view Russian criminology has a taskunknown in countries where civilisation has reached a higheraverage development. The convicts, curiousl
RM2CED7NG–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. BATCHA OF BOKHARA * See The Real Japan, Chapter IX., and The Peoples and Politics of theFar East, p. 354 sqq. OLD BOKHARA AND ITS HORRORS 303 their balconies in velvet robes and wei<4hed down with cheapmetal ornaments. As they olTer the only opportunity of see-ing what the women of this country look like, I took advan-tage once of having a Cossack with me to get him to gathera little group of them together to be photographed—with. THE UNVEILED LADIES OF .BOKHARA the result
RM2CEDDN6–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. , and it isonly the deep invulnerable stupidity of sheep which has pre-vented them from knowing it and being corrupted by it, andhas preserved to the world immaculate, snow-pure, the per-sistent, inalienable innocence of lambs. It was beautiful to watch these flocks, quitting the fast-nesses that have harboured them all summer, and now, ere thesparse vegetation of the high pastures is bedded with its firstcoverlet of snow, hurrying down to the open plain and theshelter of the
RM2CED9YJ–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. n. The train that awaited me was thepost-train and con-sisted of hve corridorcarriages, the last be-ing a restaurant-carall of them paintedwhite. The lender ofthe engine was an oil-tank, and behind ir,on a fiat truck, wasan enormous woodentub, to hold water, THE TRANS-CASPIAN TRAIN for in Central Asiathere is little fuel, and water is the most precious commoditythat exists. But a glance at the train raised a most painfulsuspicion, which a visit to the ticket-office confirmed—
RM2CED9RT–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ody ever buy a ticketby it, if it were open to all the world, as it may be before long.Moreover, it runs through such a fever-haunted district that Rus-sian carpenters, who can earn two roubles a day on it, throw upthe job and go back to earn fifty kopecks at home. The line is * This line has since been prolonged a few miles to Chahel Dokhteran, on thevery frontier, and a branch is building through Penjdeh to Maruchak, where theMurghab River crosses the frontier. THE TRANS-CA
RM2CEDPFK–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. centration is writ large over the railway here-abouts. At every station as you approach the frontier the linesexpand into a dozen, each alongside a platform, obviously thattrains may be filled and emptied quickly, collected or distributedwithout block and delay, if ever it should be necessary to hurlthe military might of Germany northward. So far as transportis concerned, the fateful word Mobilise would evidently findeverything as ready on this frontier as on the other. One m
RM2CEMX1R–. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. inguages at Hj HER The Harvesters Breakfast Photogravure from Painting hy V.O. Golyuskicompleteworksof10tols
RM2CEDNXA–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. or hasdeparted from this place, for nowadays prisoners of State arecarried to the fortress of Schliisselburg, also an island in theNeva, forty miles away. Concerning this prison absolute secrecyprevails. I made the acquaintance of an intimate relation of theGovernor, and he assured me that never in the closest familytalk had he ever heard a syllable concerning it. So far as silencegoes, it is indeed a living grave, the stony replica of the closedlips of autocracy. But all the
RM2CED5FB–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. MAUSOLEUM OF BIBI KHANUM children of the civilservantsand Russian residents. Theshopsarenot like those in Siberia, but all ordinary supplies may be pur-chased. The town reminded me of some American cities in theWest, being laid out like a chessboard, with wide streets plantedwith trees. It is evident that the Russians foresaw from thebeginning the possibilities of the place, and that they allowedroomforthedevelopmentthatissuretocome. The mountainousdistricts around are believ
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RM2CEDN48–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ?-? -fgfr^d^m-il. GATE AND CHAPiiL OF IHE OLD CITY, MOSCOW •24 ALL THE RUSSIAS the citadel; in that church his horses wore stabled. A RomanoffTsar rules Russia; this is the house where the first Romanoff tobecome a Tsar lived, as a simple seigneur; and here are the tombsof all the Ruriks and Romanoffs who ruled when St. Petersburgwas a swamp. Russia is a theocracy; Moscow is the holy city,consecrated and consecrating. Under whatever aspect Russiaof to-day presents herself to
RM2CEMW4J–. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. is face was, how shorthis hair! How long his arms! How he had changedsince she had left him ! But it was he, with the shape ofhis head, his lips, his soft little neck and broad shoulders. Serezha ! she repeated over the childs ear. He again raised himself on his elbow, turned his tousledhead to either side, as though looking for something, andopened his eyes. Softly and inquisitively he looked forseveral seconds at his mother, who was standing motion-less before him, then he suddenly smiled a blissful smileand, again closing his sticky eyes, threw himself
RM2CEDA51–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ng sun.Not much danger so far, and disguise superfluous. Eighteen hours is the allotted time for the sea-crossing, andin fine weather it is enough. Coming back we took forty, forthere was a wind and sea that at times made us think it wouldhave been safer, after all, to be in old-fashioned Central Asia, tosay nothing of the man we lost overboard. Going East, however,the Caspian was like a pond, and on the crowded decks, with theirconspicuous division of quarters for Men, Women
RM2CEM8FM–. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. Prince Kutuzov in Council at Fili Photogravure Jrom Painting by A. Kivshcnko WAR AND PEACE VOLUME III. By COUNT LEV N. TOLSTOY Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by LEO WIENER Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University BOSTON £ DANA ESTES &COMPANY £ PUBLISHERS EDITION DE LUXE Limited to One Thousand Copies,of which this is No 4.1.1 Copyright, igo4By Dana Estes & Company Entered at Stationers^ Hall Colonial Press : Electrotvped and Printed byC. H. Smionds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Prince KuTtJzov i
RM2CEDB3B–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ing the slender vintage from the foreleg of the biinlxiiki, andlistening to thrilling tales of Shamyl from one who had foughtagainst him for ten years. Another experience of Tifiis is the bath. It is a luxurious,modern, tile-fronted building in the heart of the Armenian ba-zaar, belonging to a prince whose name escapes me. Abundantsprings of water strongly impregnated with sulphuretted hydro-gen supply it, and in its vaulted chambers, far below the street,there is no sound bu
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RM2CED6J2–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 323 bakshish, volunteered to take me up to the roof, and the view ofthe city, combined with the recollection of its marvellous past,held me long entranced. Below was the crowded, noisy, many-. A SAKT OF SAMARKAND coloured market-place, enclosed by the great buildings, stillmagnificent in their partial ruin—the noblest public square inthe world, in Lord Curzons opinion. Beyond them the gloriousdomes of the mausoleums of Timur, the man who built themall, an
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RM2CED9KD–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. nd distributed till it sometimes disappears alto-gether in the sands, there is fertility—luxurious vegetations andenormous crops, such fertility, indeed, as hardly exists else-where. The moment the irrigated area is passed, the burntdesert begins again, where nothing grows but stunted tamariskand the prickly camels thorn—indeed, for hour after hour oneoften sees not even these poor struggles after plant life. Here, oneither side, as far as the eye reaches, is a yellow plain o
RM2CEDE25–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. ceptical Germans mayleave us the classic belief that Kasbek was the scene of themartyrdom of Prometheus, and the Christian legend thatAbrahams tent andChrists cradle are stillto be found hidden onits slopes. The Cau-casus, in fact, was des-tined by nature to bethe home of myth, forin ancient times it wasthe barrier beyondwhich no man couldgo, and therefore thegate of the land whichman populated withthe offspring of hisdreams—the land ofGog and Magog, ofgold-guardingGriffins,o
RM2CEDFPR–. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. four hours beyond Samara.A lovely glimpse of the town itself is caught after leaving thestation. Built in a valley, it surrounds part of a large artificiallake which was produced by damming up the little river to supplywater-powder to its foundries. This was not a success, and Zlata-oust must for ever look out upon an expensive failure, whichnevertheless constitutes its chief attraction as a town. Almostbefore the train stopped, our passengers were clustering roundthree kiosk
RM2CF2RKM–. The complete works of Count Tolstoy. However, how can Iwrite now? Now even the invisible efforts are visible,and, besides, I am up to my ears in Yufanizing. Sonya iswith me. We have no superintendent; we have onlyassistants in our agricultural labour and building opera-tions, and she runs the office and the cash-box. I havebees, and sheep, and a new orchard, and a distillery.Everything goes well, though, of course, poorly in com-parison with the ideal. What do you think of the Polishaffairs ? Things are bad! Shall we not be obliged totake the sword down from the rusty nail ? In replyto Fets