Railway travelling in Russia, 4, 8, 243, 296–97 _Ravnienie_ or “levelling,” peasants’ view of, 145 Red Cross— Abuse of the, 67 Encampments near Jen-tzen-tung, 12 Red Place, Palm Sunday fair at, 159–61 _Reformkleider_, use of, 245 Religion of the peasants, 268–69 Renan, _quoted_, 84–85, 103 _Retch_, the, 284 Revolution of December, 1905— Account, 65–69 Causes, 69–74 Effect on nature of the people, 142–43 Revolutionaries, the— Criticism of Count Witte, 46 Demands of, 75–77 Tactics of, 65–66 Riansk, Railway strike at, 25; scene at the station, 60 Riazan, Railway strike at, 25–26 Riding school, Moscow, Cossacks fire from, 33 Right and Order, Alliance of, 100, 156 Robespierre, speech of, 199–200; Danton’s criticism, 249 Rodichev, M.— Cadet leader, 153 Speeches of, 199, 214 Zemstvoist leader, 129, 219–20 _Rossia_, the, 276, 288 Rostov Regiment, mutiny in the, 50 Ruskin read in Russia, 93 _Russ_, the, criticism of C. Witte, 117 _Russkie Viedomosti_, 43; suppression of the, 87 _Russkoe Slovo_, offices burnt, 66; attack on Count Witte, 79 St. Petersburg— Current ideas in, Feb., 1906, 100–120 Election results in, 154, 156 Emperor’s birthday, demonstrations, 49 Foreign intervention, the, 286 Hooliganism in, 49–50 Strikes in, 39–44, 99 Samara, 21, 22 Saratov, agrarian agitation in, 99 Sardou, _quoted_, 138 Saviour, Church of the, 165–66 Schipov, Mr., endeavours to unite the Zemstva, 129–30; his politics, 218; formation of new ministry entrusted to, 274 Schools, village evening, 53–55; village day, 150; instituted by the Zemstvoists, 183 Schumann, Clara, 164 Serfs, results of emancipation, 178 Sevastopol, the mutiny in, 99 Shakespeare read in Russia, 93 Shaw, Bernard, 105 Shelley read in Russia, 93, 105, 267, 273 Siberia, suggested emigration to, 181 Sieyès, _quoted_, 206 Singing, Russian peasant, 294 Sipiagin, M., case of, 185 Sisran, the station at, 21 _Skashi_ or tellers of tales, 149 “Skitaletzt,” his style, 82 Social Democrats, the— Aladin’s speech, criticism of, 248 Political parties, position among, 154 Principles, 46 Social Revolutionaries, the— Elections, abstain from action in, 157 Political parties, position among, 154 Principles, 46 Socialist Club, the, 281 Socialists, 154, 156 “Societies,” arrangement by, for the purchase of land, 145–46 Soldiers’ Hospital, Moscow, 72–73, 89, 166–69 Sortes Virgilianæ, 72 Sosnofka, 137–51 South African War, Russian opinions, 101–2 Spencer, Herbert, read in Russia, 93, 264, 267 Stachovitch, M. A., politics of, 130, 218 Stanislavoshi, M., 29 State Lands, expropriation proposed, 180–81 States-General, opening compared with opening of Duma, 205–7 Stevenson read in Chinese, 18 Stolypin, M., policy, 288–89