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primarily to give the ministrations of religion. It can be permitted to few, if any, to see those two sides of the life of a great and growing Empire at the same time. This has been my reason, therefore, for undertaking this small effort, and my object is to give, as the Publishers expressed it, "personal impressions." I hope my readers will accept this book, therefore, as an impressionist description of Russian life of to-day, of which it would have been quite impossible to keep personal experiences from forming an important part. And though I write as an English Churchman, yet I wish to speak, and I trust in no narrow spirit, to the whole religious public, that I may draw them more closely into intelligent sympathy with this great nation which has seemed to come so suddenly, unexpectedly, and intimately into our own national life and destiny--and I believe as a friend. HERBERT BURY, _Bishop_. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. RUSSIA'S GREAT SPACES 1 II. GENERAL SOCIAL LIFE 21 III. THE PEASANTRY 46 IV. THE CLERGY 71 V. RELIGIOUS LIFE AND WORSHIP 95 VI. HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE TSAR 118 VII. A PATERNAL GOVERNMENT 139 VIII. THE STEPPES 162 IX. RUSSIA'S PROBLEM 186 X. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN RUSSIA 205 XI. THE JEWS 228 XII. OUR COUNTRYMEN IN THE EMPIRE 248 INDEX 268 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE TSAR _Frontispiece_ RUSSIA'S GREAT SPACES--WINTER _facing page_ 4 RUSSIA'S GREAT SPACES--SUMMER " " 8 THE KREMLIN " " 21 THE GATE OF THE REDEEMER, MOSCOW " " 29 A WELL-CLAD COACHMAN " " 33 A VILLAGE SCENE " " 46 THE METROPOLITAN OF MOSCOW " " 71 THE CONVENT AT EKATERINBURG, SIBERIA " " 78 THE ABBESS MAGDALENA " " 84 THE RUSSIAN PRIEST AT SPASSKY " " 90 S. ISAAC'S CATHEDRAL
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