Identifier: allrussiastra00norm (find matches)
Title: All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Norman, Henry, 1858-1939 Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Subjects: Eastern question (Central Asia) Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Caucasus -- Description and travel Soviet Union -- Economic conditions Finland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ich wears uniform in Russia. The nobility has itsuniform, but is the only class which, possessing one, does notusually wear it. Every student of the University wears a militaryuniform, and every boy at school, down to the youngsters ashigh as your walking-stick. Every graduate of a technical school—mining engineers, civil engineers, architects, &c.—has theright, which he generally exercises, to wear a uniform for the restof his life. Every member of all the public offices has a uniform.Since such an astonishing proportion of the well-to-do popula-tion is thus attired more or less like a soldier, it is easy to under-stand how it comes to be so undignified to be in civil dress. Ofcourse, nobody living—except perhaps a tailor or two—knowsall these uniforms and what they mean. A dozen times I haveasked an educated Russian companion what a certain uniformdenoted, and he confessed he had not the least notion. But to the wearers they mean a little authority, a little more touching
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ST. PETERSBURG 21 of the cap, the excuse for a more commanding accent. And to the foreigner they mean two things : first, an officialdom whichboth indicates and explains so great a lack of private initiative ;and second, a ceaseless source of embarrassment, from thedanger of exhibiting your railway ticket to a major-general, ormaking your most deferential bow to the guard. St. Petersburg is the only city I have seen apparently withoutsuch a thing as a place where alcoholic drinks alone are sold.In a restaurant you can order a glass of beer or of vodka, but the** bar or the public-house or the American saloon is non-existent. The only exception I saw was an automatic buffetwhere you get any drink on the penny-in-the-slot principle. Itwas enormously popular, but it also sold excellent food automati-cally, and called itself Quisisana. (I puzzled over this name along time until it occurred to me to divide it into three Italianwords.) In a shop, however, where cigarettes and liquors are sol

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