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Bp. Herbert Bury. Russian Life To-day
Russian Life To-day
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
RUSSIAN LIFE TO-DAY. CHAPTER I. Russia’s Great Spaces
CHAPTER II. General Social Life
Footnote
CHAPTER III. The Peasantry
Footnote
CHAPTER IV. The Clergy
Footnote
CHAPTER V. Religious Life and Worship
Footnote
CHAPTER VI. His Imperial Majesty the Tsar
Footnote
CHAPTER VII. A Paternal Government
Footnote
CHAPTER VIII. The Steppes
CHAPTER IX. Russia’s Problem
Footnote
CHAPTER X. The Anglican Church in Russia
Footnote
CHAPTER XI. The Jews
CHAPTER XII. Our Countrymen in the Empire
Footnote
INDEX
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Herbert Bp. Bury
Published by Good Press, 2021
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There is usually a restaurant-car on the long-distance trains—and practically all the trains in Russia are for long distances—and, if not, there is plenty of time to get food at the stations on the way. Conductors will take every care and trouble to get what is necessary, and first and second-class compartments are never overcrowded, as far as my experience goes. I believe, indeed, that not more than four people may be put into a compartment for the night, and, as the cushioned back of the seats can be lifted up, all the four travellers can be sure of being able to lie down. The first-class compartments on a post train are divided into two by folding-doors, and one is allowed to buy a platzcarte and so have the whole compartment to one’s self. Every accommodation too is provided for lying down comfortably in the third-class, and the travellers there are always the happiest-looking on the train.
Another consideration shown to the public is that the scale of charges falls in proportion to the distance to be traversed. The stations are specially spacious, particularly along the routes beyond Moscow, where emigration continually goes on into the great pastoral lands of Siberia. In the summer months the traffic is very great, and it is one of the most touching and appealing experiences I can recall to pass through one of the great waiting-halls of such a station as Samara, at night, and pick one’s way amongst the sleeping families of peasants waiting to get their connection with another line, and resting in the meantime. Their little possessions are all about them, and father and mother and sons and daughters lie gathered close up together, pillowing their heads upon each other, good-looking, prettily dressed, and fast asleep—as attractive a picture as any one could wish to see.
