Identifier: allrussiastravel01norm (find matches)
Title: All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Norman, Henry, 1858-1939
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Eastern question (Central Asia)
Publisher: New York, C. Seribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A Chat at the Wine-shop.

In Spite of the enthusiasm they evoke, the small nationalties al-
most disappear portically in the face of the colossal interests of
the Great Powers which control them directly or indirectly, and
the Caucasus is no exception to this rule. Before the Russo-
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A WANDERING BEGGAR, TIFLIS.

TIFLIS OF THE CROSS-ROADS 215
Turkish War the Georgians stood high in Russian favour; they
held important public offices, and the social relations between
them and Russian officials were cordial. During the war doubts
arose as to their loyalty, and the Armenians took advantage of
this to push their own interests. Their well-known trading and
financial gifts were of much use to the Russians and very profit-
able to themselves. But the Armenians have shared the fate
of the Georgians, for the Armenian troubles in Turkey bred a
certain amount of real political agitation, and evoked fears of a
great deal more, with the not unnatural result that the Russian
authorities now cry a plague on both their houses, and exclude
Georgians and Armenians alike from office and influence. This
action, again, is naturally being followed by a recrudescence of
national feeling, especially among the Georgians. The national
costume, once almost abandoned, is now the fashion; the national
literature is being fostered; and Georgian women talk less gossip
and more politics.

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