Pictures of Russian History And Russian Literature
Pictures of Russian History And Russian Literature
Sergiei Volkonskii
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" exclaims a contemporary ; " any- thing can be obtained in a monarchy. Is the merchant illiterate ? Close his shop and keep it so until he learns reading and writing. " The increasing foreign infiltra- tion becomes an important factor in this movement. The famous " German Suburb " in Moscow, which soon is going to become the favourite resort of Tsar Alexis' son, the young Prince Peter, rapidly grows and be- comes a sort of living cyclopaedia of foreign " craft " and "skill" which dazzles and e...nchants.^ Foreign people, foreign habits, foreign books, become points of comparison, and, for many, examples for imitation. Slight facts open new horizons of foreign superiority and dis- 1 On the German Suburb and in general on foreigners in Russia : A- Brueckner, " Die Europaisirung Russland's. " Gotha, 1888, and " Cahnr- historische Studien, " ii, Riga, 1878. \ \ AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE loi close the abysses of our ignorance. A dignitary of the Church, who carries on a Latin correspondence with a foreign merchant staying at Archangel, writes to thank him for some Latin books : ^ he considers them " Opera preciosissima ...
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