Russia, Tsar's reception in Petrograd and Moscow, 18; sympathy for oppressed Slavs, "Red Cross" collections, 19; pledge to save Serbia, 20; Mohammedans, 21; Emperor's New Year address, 21; political unity, 22; attitude towards Great Britain in 1876 and in 1914, 23; crisis between Great Britain and Russia, 25; inclination for war with Turkey, 26; bitterness against Disraeli's policy, 29; England blamed for Slav oppression, 30; Russian volunteers to help Slavs, 31; army eager to assist, 34; effect of Nicholas Kiréeff's death, 35, 38, 39; Cossacks in disguise sent to Balkans, 36; chivalry of Russian nature, 37; Great Britain and Russia's distrust of each other, 40; England's attitude hostile, 43; war declared against Turkey, England's neutrality, 48; plans ascribed to England, 49; receipt of the news of declaration of war, 49; mission to Afghanistan, 81; eve of Russo-Turkish War, 85; smoking not common among women, 100; "Russians are Slavs," 106; Jewish question in Russia, 112; what the Hebrews did in 1876, 113; feeling between Slavs and Jews, 113; Yiddish jargon not used by Russians, 117; vigilance with regard to criminals, 117; famine of 1892, 125; sufferings of people, 126, 128-136; Moscow and Petrograd Conservatoriums, 141; people's interest in England's expressed sympathy for oppressed Armenians, 162; temperance measures, 167; Germans encourage sale of alcohol in Polish provinces, 178; reforms in Russia effected rapidly, 180; arrest of alleged Englishwoman at Warsaw, 196; Dogger Bank incident, 197; and a parallel, 198; feeling towards Nihilists, 202; war never desired, 203; effect of political murders, 209; people's loyalty to Emperor, 210; unlimited faith in new theories, 211; difference between students of 1840 and 1860, 212; parliamentary system unsatisfactory, 214; Russian nature, 214, 215; meaning of Siberia to Englishmen, 216; the convict's treatment in Siberia, 217; proportion of prisoners, 218; revolution of 1905, 237; the "Court of Petitions," 241; the Court of Appeal to Mercy, 242; prisoners taken for active service, 244; political prisoners' patriotism. 245; the ancient Russian parish, 279; proposed reforms, 281, 282; appreciation of England's assistance in European War, 290 Russo-Japanese War, 88 Russo-Turkish War, 85 Salisbury, Lord, 46, 47, 115, 152, 153, 161 Safonoff, M., 145 San Stéfano treaty, 149, 150, 266, 267 Sassoun, 148, 149, 151, 152 Serbia, 17, 20, 35, 41, 216, 217, 218, 248 Seymour, Sir Henry, 93 Seymour, Vice-Admiral, 198 Shouvaloff, Count, 103, 104, 105 _Siberia as it is_, by Harry de Windt, 220 Skobeleff, General, 85, 86 Skobeleff, Madame, 85 Slavonic Saints, 47 Slavs, treatment in 1875, 18; Russian sympathy, 19; Russia's pledge to help Serbia, 20; England blamed for Turkey's cruelty, 30; help from Russian volunteers, 31; Mr. Gladstone's sympathy, 45; Russia the only Power which cares for Slavs, 95 Smirnoff, General, 192 Smoking in Russia, 106 Sofia, 31 Staal, Baron and Baroness de, 102