Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) +-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ THE LAND OF RIDDLES (RUSSIA OF TO-DAY) BY HUGO GANZ TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN AND EDITED BY HERMAN ROSENTHAL [Illustration: Logo] HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1904 Copyright, 1904, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ Published November, 1904. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE PREFACE v I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. WARSAW 8 III. WARSAW--_Continued_ 17 IV. ST. PETERSBURG 24 V. ST. PETERSBURG--_Continued_ 33 VI. ARTIST AND PROFESSOR--ILYA RYEPIN 44 VII. THE HERMITAGE 60 VIII. THE HERMITAGE--_Continued_ 69 IX. THE CAMORRA--A TALK WITH A RUSSIAN PRINCE 83 X. SÄNGER'S FALL 94 XI. THE PEOPLE'S PALACE OF ST. PETERSBURG (NARODNI DOM) 103 XII. RUSSIA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE 111 XIII. THE RUSSIAN FINANCES 123 XIV. A FUNERAL 133 XV. THE CHINOVNIK (THE RUSSIAN OFFICIAL) 144 XVI. THE SUFFERINGS OF THE JEWS 154 XVII. THE JEWISH QUESTION 167 XVIII. PLEHVE 173 XIX. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 182 XX. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AS THE PUBLIC SEES IT 196 XXI. PUBLIC OPINION AND THE PRESS 206 XXII. SOME REALITIES OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION 217 XXIII. THE STUDENT BODY IN RUSSIA 226 XXIV. BEFORE THE CATASTROPHE 235 XXV. SECTARIANS AND SOCIALISTS 245 XXVI. MOSCOW 257 XXVII. MOSCOW--_Continued_ 270 XXVIII. A VISIT TO TOLSTOÏ 285 XXIX. A VISIT TO TOLSTOÏ--_Continued_ 295 XXX. A VISIT TO TOLSTOÏ--_Continued_ 310 PREFACE