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Часть текста: and our friends, the event of the emancipation of the peasants in Russia, and on the morning of that day arrived by telegraph the account of the massacres at Warsaw. We quote from the article referred to: Our fête was sombre, sinister: we have known few days more heavy, when the mind has been more painfully oppressed by conflicting sentiments; never before did lampions hang so close to tears. The time is still far distant when a Russian may hold a fête for any event whatever in gaiety of heart, with no sad thought behind, with no anxious care. We had grown young again at the great news of the emancipation of the peasants; we looked forward with hope and anticipated with emotion our proposed meeting, prepared to drink, for the first time in our lives, the health of the emperor Alexander II, liberator of the peasants. We knew perfectly well to what obloquy we should expose ourselves by this act on the part of a narrow-minded political puritanism and mean jealousies. But we also knew that this toast, pronounced by us at our table, would have an echo in the heart of the emperor Alexander, very different from that of an enthusiasm under censure of the gendarmes and warmed by the police. But our hand fell, our toast was chocked in the blood at Warsaw. The crime was too recent, the wounds still bled, the corpses had not had time to become stiff. The name of the czar expired on our lips; without speeches and without noise, with the religious...
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Часть текста: to such a question as that of white slavery in Russia[1]. White slavery in Russia has been too little attacked: perhaps because it has not been defended with the fierce tenacity of Transatlantic slaveholders. For it is to be remarked, that although many of the rich landholders in Russia passionately desire the maintenance of serfdom, no one is found to justify the institution ‒ no one to undertake its defence: not even the government. It is nevertheless a question of capital importance. Indeed, the whole Russian Question, for the present at least, may be said to be included in that of serfdom. Russia cannot make a step in advance until she has abolished slavery. The serfdom of the Russian peasant is the servitude of the Russian empire. The political and social existence of Western Europe formerly was concentrated in châteaux and in cities. It was essentially an aristocratic, or municipal existence. The peasant remained outside of the movement. The revolution took little thought of him. The sale of national property had no effect upon his condition, except to create a limited provincial bourgeoisie. The serf knew well enough that the land did not belong to him: he only looked for a personal and negative emancipation: an emancipation of the labourer. In Russia the reverse is the case. The original organization of that agricultural and communistic people was essentially democratic. There were no châteaux, very few towns, and those few nothing but large villages. No distinction existed between the peasant and the citizen. The rural commune, as it still exists, is the exact image of the great communes of Novgorod, Pskow, Kiev. Moscovite centralization, indeed, destroyed the autonomy of the towns: but the humble word commune preserved its self-government, its trial by jury, its justices of the peace, till after the reign of Ivan the Terrible: that is to say, till the XVIIth century. The soil was not as yet the...
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Часть текста: II, asking him to discontinue his persecutions of instruction in Russia. We are, indeed, quite edified by the tender friendship between Mr. George Williams (of King's College, Cambridge) and admiral Putiatin; but when friendship becomes a passion it may dim the mind as well as love or ambition. Mr. G. Williams, in the letter inserted in your esteemed journal (November 15), tries to smooth the bad impression produced on public opinion by your very truthful and beautiful correspondence concerning the Russian Universities. He says,—«The two main grievances, of which the students, had to complain at the outset were the abolition of their uniforms, and the imposition of certain tuition fees». The first assertion proves that Mr. Williams did not attentively read your correspondence; the second, that he does not understand the state of things in Russia, in spite of his having travelled in that country. The uniforms were worn by order of the government, and. during the reign of Nicholas the rules regarding them were so stringent that the uniform was for the students rather a subject of hatred than of love. Certainly, they did not much trouble themselves about the abolition of it, though they knew that in the present time it was abolished in order to excuse any aggression of the police against the students, who...
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Часть текста: «А вы знаете их?» – спросил меня Ламорисиер. – «Кто их не знает!» – «Nommez-les, nommez-les [488] ». – «Ну, да Яков Толстой и генерал Жомини». – «Завтра же велю у них сделать обыск». – «Да будто Жомини русский агент?» – спросил я. – «Ха, ха, ха! Это мы увидим теперь». Вот вам человек. Рубикон был перейден, и, что я ни делал, чтобы воздержать дружбу Головина, а главное, его посещения, все было тщетно. Он раза два в неделю приходил к нам, и нравственный уровень нашего уголка тотчас понижался – начинались ссоры, сплетни, личности. Лет пять спустя, когда Головин хотел меня додразнить до драки, он говорил, что я его боюсь; говоря это, он, конечно, не подозревал, как давно я его боялся до лондонской ссоры. Еще в России я слышал об его бестактности, о нецеремонности в денежных отношениях. Шевырев, возвратившись из Парижа, рассказывал о процессе Головина с лакеем, с которым он подрался, и ставил это на счет нас, западников, к числу которых причислял Гол<овина>. Я Шевыреву заметил, что Запад следует винить только в том, что они дрались , потому что на Востоке Головин просто бы поколотил слугу и никто не говорил бы об этом. Забытое теперь содержание его сочинений о России еще менее располагало к знакомству с ним. Французская риторика, либерализм Роттековой школы, pêle-mêle [489] разбросанные анекдоты, сентенции, постоянные личности и никакой...