Identifier: russia00dobsrich (find matches)
Title: Russia;
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Dobson, George Grove, Henry M Stewart, Hugh, 1884-1934 Haenen, F. de
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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urkey, whither many of the Crimean hordeemigrated after the annexation of the peninsula.But in Russia proper they are perfectly content.The Russians have been careful never by over-zealous missionary activity to fan the slumberingflames of fanaticism. Indeed, the student of Russianecclesiastical history must note a remarkable con-trast between the treatment of the Tsars non-Slavonic subjects and the measures adopted towardsdissent from the Orthodox Church. In appearancethe Tartar is broad-shouldered, with oval face,projecting skull-bones, narrow, black, expressive,eyes, and a thin wedge-shaped beard. The womenrun to flesh, and spoil their complexions by over-application of paint and rouge. Though theirvillages are strikingly superior to the Russian,they are not good agriculturists. Scarcely ayear passes but they apply for help to the localZemstvo, confident that the Russian Tsar is rich,he will feed us. But in other than rural pursuitsthey show a high degree of industry, perseverance,
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RICH TARTARS AN EASTERN GOVERNMENT 365 and practical ability. Tliese qualities are reinforcedby the sobriety which makes them invaluable ascoachmen or waiters. They recruit largely theranks of the lower servants in the Imperial house-hold and great caravanserais of Petersburg andIMoscow. Nearer the railways many of them tourthe country as pedlars, with khalats and cloth goodsflung over their arm. They are well educated. Aschool is attached to nearly every mctcJict, and themullahs and their assistants teach the boys whiletheir wives instruct the girls. The children stay atschool from the age of seven to twelve. Theeducational course is chiefly religious. Higher in-struction is provided in a great Mohammedancollege at Ufa, the town magnificently situatedabove the River Bielaya, and to complete theirtraining the future mullahs go to Bukliara or someother city in Central Asia, or even to Egypt. Themullahs stand on a very different footing in respectto influence and authority than the Chri

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