item: #1 of 49 id: 11980 author: Graham, Stephen title: A Tramp's Sketches date: None words: 61925 flesch: 83 summary: But in the country places I met wise old men who kept candles burning before my shrine, and in the houses of the poor I met the body-wearied, world-defeated, and they, having lost all, found the one hope that I cherished. The railway company opened new establishments, and the directors have loved my husband, and one of them even said at a public meeting, 'Would to God there were more men in the world like Alexander Fed'otch!' keywords: beauty; black; children; church; dark; day; days; earth; eyes; find; god; grey; hand; heart; hospitality; house; jerusalem; lay; life; living; looking; man; men; monastery; morning; mystery; nature; new; night; peasant; people; place; road; russian; sea; sky; sleep; soul; stars; sun; things; thought; time; town; tramp; waves; way; white; woman; words; world cache: 11980.txt plain text: 11980.txt item: #2 of 49 id: 12328 author: Kennan, George title: Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia date: None words: 136460 flesch: 60 summary: We realised then, if never before, the difference between _life_ in God's country and _existence_ in north-eastern Asia. The _letovie_ is always built near the mouth of an adjacent river or stream, and consists of a few _yurts_ or earth-covered huts, eight or ten conical _balagáns_ mounted on stilts, and a great number of wooden frames on which fish are hung to dry. keywords: air; american; anadyrsk; arctic; arrival; away; bark; black; boat; bush; camp; chapter; chukchis; coast; cold; country; course; dark; day; days; distance; dodd; dogs; face; feet; fire; fish; fur; gizhiga; good; great; ground; half; head; heavy; high; horses; hours; house; ice; illustration; kamchadals; kamchatka; koraks; language; life; line; long; major; man; men; miles; moment; morning; mountains; mouth; natives; nature; new; night; north; northern; okhotsk; open; party; petropavlovsk; place; reindeer; river; road; russian; sea; settlement; ship; siberian; sledges; smoke; snow; storm; summer; tea; tent; thought; time; travel; valley; village; wandering; water; weather; white; wild; wind; winter; work; yurt cache: 12328.txt plain text: 12328.txt item: #3 of 49 id: 1326 author: Ransome, Arthur title: The Crisis in Russia date: None words: 36910 flesch: 58 summary: [Nothing could have been much more artificial than the industrial geography of old Russia. There will not be a Russian who will not believe that the artificial incubation of civil war within the frontiers of old Russia was not deliberately undertaken by Western Europe with the object of so far weakening Russia as to make her exploitation easy. keywords: army; committee; communists; conference; conscription; country; europe; food; general; government; labor; moscow; non; party; people; present; revolution; russia; soviet; state; struggle; things; time; town; trades; transport; unions; war; way; work; workers; working; workmen cache: 1326.txt plain text: 1326.txt item: #4 of 49 id: 1349 author: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie title: Russia date: None words: 283036 flesch: 53 summary: As it was a difficult matter to gain admittance to the prisoner, and I had little time at my disposal, I adopted the latter alternative. Living in constant fear of their persecutors, and wandering from one place of refuge to another, the sufferers for the Faith had little time or inclination to think of family ties, and readily listened to the monks, who exhorted them to mortify the lusts of the flesh. keywords: administration; affairs; agricultural; attention; authorities; authority; autocratic; capital; case; change; chapter; character; chief; church; classes; commune; conceptions; condition; contrary; country; course; day; development; effect; efforts; emancipation; emperor; empire; end; europe; european; fact; families; family; foreign; form; french; future; general; german; good; government; great; half; hand; history; home; house; idea; influence; institutions; intellectual; ivan; kind; labour; land; language; law; life; majority; man; means; members; military; moment; money; moral; moscow; movement; national; nature; nicholas; nobles; noblesse; number; official; opinion; order; organisation; orthodox; peasantry; peasants; people; petersburg; place; point; police; population; position; power; present; principles; progress; property; proprietors; provinces; public; purpose; question; regard; revolutionary; right; russian; self; sense; serfage; serfs; service; simple; social; society; spirit; state; subject; system; term; things; thought; time; towns; tsar; view; village; war; way; western; work; world; years; young; zemstvo cache: 1349.txt plain text: 1349.txt item: #5 of 49 id: 13806 author: Knox, Thomas Wallace title: Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life date: None words: 191002 flesch: 74 summary: There are many good men among the priests of the Eastern church in Siberia, but it must also be admitted there are many bad ones. In the government of Yakutsk there are many horses that find their own living in winter as in summer. keywords: air; american; amoor; baggage; bank; boat; captain; chapter; character; chief; china; chinese; church; city; cold; company; country; course; custom; day; days; dinner; distance; dogs; dozen; emperor; end; english; exiles; feet; find; fire; fish; french; general; gentleman; gold; good; government; governor; ground; half; hand; head; hills; horses; hour; house; ice; illustration; irkutsk; journey; kiachta; kind; lake; land; left; life; line; making; man; men; merchants; miles; money; morning; mountains; natives; near; new; nicolayevsk; night; north; number; officers; party; people; petersburg; piece; place; point; population; post; present; ready; region; river; road; room; russian; saw; sea; second; service; ship; shore; siberia; sleigh; snow; station; steamer; summer; table; tea; telegraph; thought; time; town; trade; travel; traveler; trees; valley; versts; village; visit; water; way; winter; women; wood; work; years cache: 13806.txt plain text: 13806.txt item: #6 of 49 id: 15269 author: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) title: The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time date: None words: 172062 flesch: 67 summary: During the reign, of Catharine Russia presented the extraordinary spectacle of one of the most powerful and aristocratic kingdoms on the globe governed by an empress whose origin was that of a nameless girl found weeping in the streets of a sacked town--while there rode, at the head of the armies of the empire, towering above grand dukes and princes of the blood, the son of a peasant, who had passed his childhood the apprentice of a pastry cook, selling cakes in the streets of Moscow. Russian princes, with more or less power ruled over the serfs who tilled their lands, but there was no recognized head of the once powerful kingdom, and no Russian prince ventured to disobey the commands even of the humblest captain of the Tartar hordes. keywords: age; alexander; armies; arms; army; banks; battle; blood; brother; capital; catharine; chapter; character; children; christian; church; city; constantinople; country; court; crown; day; days; death; dmitri; embassador; emperor; empire; empress; england; europe; father; field; france; general; georges; god; government; grand; great; hands; head; iii; inhabitants; ivan; khan; kief; king; kingdom; left; letter; life; man; march; marriage; men; miles; monarch; moscow; mother; napoleon; night; nobles; novgorod; number; palace; paul; peace; people; peter; petersburg; poland; power; prince; provinces; russia; russians; sea; soldiers; son; sovereign; state; sviatoslaf; sweden; tartars; throne; time; treaty; troops; turks; tzar; volga; war; wife; world; years cache: 15269.txt plain text: 15269.txt item: #7 of 49 id: 16613 author: Spargo, John title: Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy date: None words: 118862 flesch: 55 summary: It dealt with the vexed problems of marriage and divorce, the land question, co-operative production, and other similar matters, and the solutions it suggested for these problems became widely accepted as the program of revolutionary Russia. This society, which was destined to exert a marked influence upon revolutionary Russia, was the most ambitious revolutionary effort Russia had known. keywords: army; bolshevik government; bolsheviki; bourgeoisie; class; classes; committee; conditions; congress; constituent assembly; council; country; czar; day; delegates; democracy; democratic; dictatorship; duma; elections; executive; fact; force; freedom; general; german; government; industrial; kerensky; labor; land; leaders; lenine; majority; masses; members; movement; nation; new; order; organizations; party; peace; peasants; people; petrograd; policy; population; power; program; proletariat; representatives; revolutionary; revolutionists; right; russia; socialist; soldiers; soviet; state; struggle; time; trotzky; war; workers; working; workmen cache: 16613.txt plain text: 16613.txt item: #8 of 49 id: 16930 author: Parmele, Mary Platt title: A Short History of Russia date: None words: 60061 flesch: 64 summary: At this critical moment M. Von Plehve, the leader of the party of reaction, the very incarnation of the spirit of old Russia, of Pobiedonostseff and the Holy Synod, was in power. Protestant Prussia in the West, Greek Russia in the East, and Catholic Austria on the South, each preparing to absorb all it could get away--not from Poland, but from each other. keywords: alexander; army; catherine; chapter; charles; china; church; city; civilization; day; death; east; eastern; emperor; empire; england; europe; european; family; father; government; grand; greek; head; history; ivan; japan; kief; left; life; like; man; men; moscow; new; nicholas; peace; people; peter; poland; policy; power; prince; reign; russia; sea; son; state; system; territory; throne; time; treaty; tsar; war; way; years cache: 16930.txt plain text: 16930.txt item: #9 of 49 id: 17350 author: Russell, Bertrand title: The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism date: None words: 38410 flesch: 57 summary: I had an hour's talk with Lenin, virtually _tête-à-tête_; I met Trotsky, though only in company; I spent a night in the country with Kamenev; and I saw a great deal of other men who, though less known outside Russia, are of considerable importance in the Government. Other men might have been excused for not foreseeing the attitude of Churchill, Clemenceau and Millerand; but Marxians could not be excused, since this attitude was in exact accord with their own formula. keywords: art; bolsheviks; capitalist; class; communist; countries; country; fact; food; good; government; great; industrial; industry; labour; life; man; methods; moscow; peasants; people; power; present; revolution; russia; soviet; state; system; theory; time; view; war; work; world cache: 17350.txt plain text: 17350.txt item: #10 of 49 id: 18165 author: Hapgood, Isabel Florence title: Russian Rambles date: None words: 104186 flesch: 69 summary: Piotr's smiling wife, who was small, like most Russian peasant women, had baked us some half-rye, half-wheat bread, to our order; she made it remarkably well, much better than Osip. If we take the Prospekt at different hours, we may gain a fairly comprehensive view of many Russian ways and people, cosmopolitan as the city is. keywords: black; blue; book; bread; case; century; children; church; city; class; close; count; country; course; cross; day; days; door; emperor; end; fair; family; fashion; feet; fine; form; general; good; great; green; half; hand; head; high; home; horses; hours; house; kumys; land; left; life; like; little; man; matter; men; milk; monastery; money; morning; moscow; new; night; number; o'clock; office; official; order; peasant; people; petersburg; place; point; police; present; price; red; return; river; room; round; russian; set; shops; sort; state; street; summer; tea; things; time; tolstoy; town; village; volga; water; way; white; winter; women; work; years cache: 18165.txt plain text: 18165.txt item: #11 of 49 id: 19534 author: None title: Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers date: None words: 91629 flesch: 62 summary: A peculiar ornament or sacred vessel of the Russo-Greek church is known under the name of _panagia_, and of this there are two kinds. First, the unwashed peddler who had wished to be my companion's bedfellow the night before; then our luggage sleigh; and, finally, my friend and self, who brought up the rear, with a careful eye upon our effects, as the people in that part of the country were said to have some difficulty in distinguishing between _meum_ and _tuum_. keywords: art; black; capital; caspian; cathedral; caucasus; centre; century; chief; church; churches; city; coast; come; cossacks; country; course; cross; day; days; distance; east; eastern; empire; end; english; europe; european; fact; feet; finland; forest; form; general; gold; good; government; grand; greek; ground; half; head; holy; houses; illustration; kief; kind; kremlin; land; left; life; line; man; men; miles; moscow; new; nijni; north; northern; novgorod; number; odessa; peasant; people; petersburg; place; poland; population; present; provinces; railway; region; river; russian; sea; service; siberia; silver; snow; south; square; state; streets; summer; sun; tea; time; town; tsar; volga; walls; water; way; western; white; winter; work; world; years cache: 19534.txt plain text: 19534.txt item: #12 of 49 id: 20880 author: Van Bergen, R. (Robert) title: The Story of Russia date: None words: 68749 flesch: 72 summary: In Russia laws are made or unmade at the will of one person who is himself above the laws. In 1661, a thirteen years' truce was concluded, whereby Russia restored Lithuania, but kept Little Russia on the left bank of the Dnieper, together with Kief and Smolensk. keywords: alexander; army; austria; battle; brother; capital; catherine; church; city; constantinople; country; czar; death; duke; emperor; empire; europe; father; france; government; grand; great; greek; ivan; japan; khan; kief; king; left; man; men; moscow; napoleon; nicholas; nobles; novgorod; peace; people; peter; poland; power; prince; russia; russians; sea; son; tartars; territory; throne; time; vassili; vladimir; war; way; years; young cache: 20880.txt plain text: 20880.txt item: #13 of 49 id: 21889 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Peter the Great date: None words: 75181 flesch: 61 summary: The embassy accordingly paused here, to take some rest from the fatigues and excitements of their long journey, and to allow Peter time to form and mature plans for future movements and operations. 1700-1704 Continuation of the war--Stratagems of the Swedes--Peculiar kind of boat--Making a smoke--Peter determines to build a city--The site--Peter's first visit to the Neva--Cronstadt--A stratagem--Contest on the island--Peter examines the locality--He matures his plans--Mechanics and artisans--Ships and merchandise--Laborers--The boyars--The building commenced--Wharves and piers--Palace--Confusion--Variety of labors--Want of tools and implements--Danger from the enemy--Supplies of provisions--The supplies often fall short--Consequent sickness--Great mortality--Peter's impetuosity of spirit--Streets and buildings--Private dwellings--What the King of Sweden said--Map--Situation of Cronstadt--Peter plans a fortress--Mode of laying the foundations--Danger from the Swedes--Plan of their attack--The Swedes beaten off--The attempt entirely fails--Mechanics and artisans--Various improvements--Scientific institutions The struggle thus commenced between the Czar Peter and Charles XII. of Sweden, for the possession of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, continued for many years. keywords: alexis; army; catharine; character; city; country; course; czar; day; death; emperor; father; fort; general; government; guards; king; life; manner; means; men; moscow; new; number; officers; order; people; persons; peter; place; power; princess; respect; russian; son; sophia; state; thing; time; way; years cache: 21889.txt plain text: 21889.txt item: #14 of 49 id: 22655 author: Moukhanoff, Michael title: Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch date: None words: 35712 flesch: 81 summary: Between moments of respite Nelka would run out into the dark and try to soothe her horse which was tied in the woods. In attempting this biographical sketch of Nelka I am using the memories of 45 years together and also a great number of letters as material. keywords: america; aunt; border; country; day; days; dog; feeling; general; going; kovno; left; life; long; love; mother; nelka; new; night; paris; people; petersburg; place; russia; things; tibi; time; war; way; years cache: 22655.txt plain text: 22655.txt item: #15 of 49 id: 23031 author: Seacole, Mary title: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands date: None words: 60614 flesch: 69 summary: It was on this same day, I think, that bending down over a poor fellow whose senses had quite gone, and, I fear me, would never return to him in this world, he took me for his wife, and calling me Mary, Mary, many times, asked me how it was he had got home so quickly, and why he did not see the children; and said he felt sure he should soon get better now. But little time had we to think of the dead, whose business it was to see after the dying, who might yet be saved. keywords: army; balaclava; british; brother; camp; chapter; cholera; course; crimea; cruces; day; days; death; england; english; fellow; following; french; friends; good; great; hand; hill; home; hotel; house; kind; life; little; men; morning; mrs; new; night; officers; panama; place; reader; saw; seacole; sebastopol; sick; spring; store; things; thought; time; way; woman; work; world cache: 23031.txt plain text: 23031.txt item: #16 of 49 id: 27366 author: Heywood, Robert title: A Journey in Russia in 1858 date: None words: 12489 flesch: 63 summary: Among other numerous palaces may be mentioned the Michaelhof, erected by the Emperor Paul with extraordinary rapidity, there being 5,000 men employed daily, and in order to dry the walls more quickly large iron plates were made hot and fastened to them. The very great simplicity and absence of all ornament form a striking but most becoming contrast to the usual display in many other churches. keywords: buildings; church; churches; city; emperor; english; feet; following; gardens; miles; moscow; number; palace; petersburg; room; russia; silver; streets; time; trees cache: 27366.txt plain text: 27366.txt item: #17 of 49 id: 27743 author: Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel) title: Through Finland in Carts date: None words: 123110 flesch: 74 summary: There is no sex question in Finland, _men and women are practically equals_, and on that basis society is formed. Indeed, in 1529, _Åbo_ linen was so famous that it was always used by the King of Sweden, therefore it is not surprising that weaving is still quite a pastime among Finnish ladies, and every cottager knows how to ply her shuttle. keywords: air; away; bath; birch; black; boat; bread; bride; butter; castle; children; church; coffee; cold; country; course; day; days; diet; door; end; england; english; fact; family; father; feet; finland; finnish; finns; folk; friends; general; girl; good; half; hand; head; home; hours; house; journey; kind; ladies; lake; language; law; leave; life; little; look; man; meal; means; miles; milk; moment; months; morning; mother; native; new; night; number; order; party; peasants; people; pine; place; red; rest; room; round; rule; russian; saw; sea; sister; snow; sort; summer; sun; suomi; swedish; table; tar; things; thought; thy; till; time; town; trees; water; white; wife; wild; winter; women; wooden; work; world; years cache: 27743.txt plain text: 27743.txt item: #18 of 49 id: 33303 author: Bury, Herbert, Bp. title: Russian Life To-day date: None words: 61101 flesch: 63 summary: This chapter is not, like the others, concerned with Russian people and affairs; but I have ventured to write it because without it English Churchmen would not be able to understand fully the influence we are exercising upon Russian life and thought even now, and which, in far fuller measure, we are expecting to exercise in the time to come. I hope my readers will accept this book, therefore, as an impressionist description of Russian life of to-day, of which it would have been quite impossible to keep personal experiences from forming an important part. keywords: bishop; character; church; clergy; country; countrymen; course; day; days; emperor; empire; english; family; god; good; government; hand; home; hope; illustration; life; man; moscow; new; peasant; people; petrograd; place; present; real; russia; russians; sense; service; siberia; social; steppes; things; think; time; village; war; way; winter; work; world; years cache: 33303.txt plain text: 33303.txt item: #19 of 49 id: 35232 author: Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich title: A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia date: None words: 4466 flesch: 52 summary: In reality the class struggle in revolutionary times has always inevitably taken on the form of civil war, and civil war is unthinkable without the worst kind of destruction, without terror and limitations of form of democracy in the interests of the war. The combination of the dictatorship of the proletariat with the new democracy of the proletariat, of civil war with the widest application of the masses to political problems, such a combination cannot be achieved in a day, cannot be forced into the battered forms of formal parliamentary democratism. keywords: american; bourgeoisie; class; new; proletariat; revolution; war; world cache: 35232.txt plain text: 35232.txt item: #20 of 49 id: 36303 author: Trotsky, Leon title: Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 date: None words: 36224 flesch: 56 summary: the proletariat; its aim is to fight for _revolutionary power_. Labor Dictatorship, 94-97; crushing absolutism, abandoning its remnants, 103-104; introducing class politics, 103; introducing class struggle in the village, 104-105; introducing Collectivism and Internationalism, 105; abandoning distinction between minimum and maximum program, 106; and eight hour workday, 106-108; and unemployment, 108-9; and agriculture, 109; and Collectivism, 109-110; and class consciousness, 124-128; incompatible with economic slavery, 132; and agrarian question, 132-136. Liberalism, denying the existence of revolutionary masses, 52-53; defeated by events of January 9th, 54; trying to tame revolutionary people, 55; not reliable as partner in Revolution, 173-174; keywords: army; bourgeois revolution; bourgeoisie; class; country; government; history; labor; liberal; masses; national; new; party; peasants; people; power; proletariat; revolution; revolutionary; russian; socialist; soviet; state; struggle; time; trotzky; war; working; workingmen; world; years cache: 36303.txt plain text: 36303.txt item: #21 of 49 id: 36505 author: Hommaire de Hell, Xavier title: Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. date: None words: 226957 flesch: 60 summary: | 1838. | 1839. keywords: appearance; asia; astrakhan; banks; black; capital; caspian; cattle; caucasus; century; chapter; character; chief; circassians; coast; colonies; colony; commerce; cossacks; country; course; crimea; day; days; degree; distance; dniepr; don; doubt; east; emperor; empire; end; europe; eyes; families; family; form; french; general; german; good; government; grand; great; ground; habits; half; head; high; history; horses; house; husband; influence; inhabitants; journey; kalmucks; kherson; land; left; life; line; little; long; man; manner; means; merchants; military; moment; months; mountaineers; mountains; nations; nature; night; number; odessa; officers; order; pass; peasants; people; period; persia; persons; petersburg; place; population; port; position; power; present; priests; prince; provinces; public; real; regions; return; river; road; room; rubles; russia; russians; saw; sea; service; set; state; steppes; system; tatars; thing; thought; time; town; trade; tribes; vessels; villages; visit; volga; war; water; way; women; work; world; years; | page; | | cache: 36505.txt plain text: 36505.txt item: #22 of 49 id: 37889 author: Stephens, John L. title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 80202 flesch: 62 summary: It was not necessary, surrounded by such magnificent scenery, to draw upon historical recollections for the sake of giving interest to the road; still it did not diminish that interest to know that, many centuries ago, great cities stood here, whose sites are now desolate or occupied as the miserable gathering-places of a starving population. But high above the ruins of the modern city towers the Acropolis, holding up to the skies the ruined temples of other days, and proclaiming what Athens was. keywords: american; appearance; athens; black; city; coffee; corinth; country; day; days; door; evening; eyes; feet; friend; good; great; greece; greek; ground; half; hands; having; head; hill; home; hotel; hour; house; interest; island; land; left; life; man; men; morning; mountain; new; night; o'clock; people; place; plain; road; room; ruins; scene; sea; smyrna; streets; temple; things; time; turkish; turks; walls; way; women; world; years; young cache: 37889.txt plain text: 37889.txt item: #23 of 49 id: 37947 author: Stephens, John L. title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 82717 flesch: 58 summary: I have seen great cities desolate and in ruins, magnificent temples buried in the sands of the African desert, and places once teeming with fertility now lying waste and silent; but no monument of fallen greatness ever affected me more than this. Victor, with eight or ten thousand men, covered the retreat over the bridges, while behind his line thousands of stragglers, old men, women, and children, were wandering by the side of this river like the fabled spectres which throng the banks of the infernal Styx, seeking in vain for passage. keywords: army; battle; beautiful; church; city; companion; country; day; days; door; emperor; english; europe; eyes; feet; french; friend; gold; good; government; great; ground; hand; head; home; horses; hotel; journey; lady; left; life; looking; man; men; moment; morning; moscow; new; night; noble; o'clock; opposite; passport; people; petersburgh; place; poland; poles; polish; principal; return; road; room; russian; soldier; square; streets; time; town; traveller; trees; walls; warsaw; way cache: 37947.txt plain text: 37947.txt item: #24 of 49 id: 38690 author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf title: What Shall We Do? date: None words: 107709 flesch: 65 summary: They were as other men, did not consider themselves unhappy, but believed they were like everyone else, as in reality they were. I ought to have understood how foolish it was of one who was educating his own children in complete idleness and luxury to try to reform other men and their children, and save them from going to ruin and idleness in what I called the _dens_ in Rzhanoff's house; where, however, three-fourths of the men were working for themselves and for others. keywords: activity; answer; art; business; children; condition; country; day; division; evil; fact; food; god; good; government; great; hands; help; house; human; labour; land; law; life; lives; living; man; mankind; means; men; money; need; order; people; place; position; property; question; reason; right; science; slavery; state; theory; thing; time; town; violence; want; way; woman; work; working; world; years cache: 38690.txt plain text: 38690.txt item: #25 of 49 id: 39888 author: Saurusaitis, Peter title: Thirty Days in Lithuania in 1919 date: None words: 5950 flesch: 70 summary: Having obtained all the documents I said adieu to Kaunas, adieu Lithuania, adieu Vilkaviskis, adieu my sister and all her family. After we passed Koeningsburg near the Eytkunen limit of Lithuania, some persons, one of them in the uniform of a soldier, began to speak the Lithuanian language. keywords: kaunas; language; lithuania; nation; people; poles; ship; train cache: 39888.txt plain text: 39888.txt item: #26 of 49 id: 41237 author: Vanderlip, Washington Baker title: In Search of a Siberian Klondike date: None words: 53484 flesch: 79 summary: I found it very difficult to get good dogs there, but after four days of patient search I secured two strong young natives, each with a team of twelve dogs. Of course I was always on the lookout for good dogs, and while I was in this village I came upon the finest specimen of a Siberian sledge-dog that it was ever my fortune to see. keywords: american; chrisoffsky; day; days; deer; dogs; feet; fish; food; ghijiga; gold; good; half; head; house; ice; illustration; left; man; men; miles; morning; natives; night; north; people; place; point; reindeer; river; russian; sea; skin; sledge; snow; stream; summer; tea; time; tundra; use; village; water; way; women; work cache: 41237.txt plain text: 41237.txt item: #27 of 49 id: 41452 author: Le Queux, William title: Rasputin the Rascal Monk Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time. date: None words: 45688 flesch: 68 summary: As he expected, his servant drank a glass, and within half-an-hour he expired in terrible agony, with Rasputin jeering at him in his death-throes. Rasputin the Rascal Monk, by William Le Queux. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ keywords: berlin; court; day; days; dear; disciples; emperor; empire; empress; father; friend; general; german; god; hand; holy; house; imperial; influence; letter; madame; majesty; man; minister; mock; monk; order; palace; petrograd; protopopoff; rasputin; russia; saint; secret; selo; sister; sturmer; time; tsar; tsaritza; tsarskoe; vyrubova; war; women cache: 41452.txt plain text: 41452.txt item: #28 of 49 id: 41495 author: Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de title: Russia: Its People and Its Literature date: None words: 74938 flesch: 53 summary: It met with amazing success; for the first time the public found an author who could give them a true picture of Russian life. Of his short stories, his episodes of Russian life, I know not which to select; they are filigree and jewels, wrought by the Benvenuto of his trade; brass is gold in his hands, and his chisel excels at every point. keywords: art; author; book; century; character; classes; country; czar; day; dead; death; dostoiëwsky; europe; fact; family; father; french; general; gogol; good; hand; heart; hero; history; human; idea; influence; intellectual; land; life; literature; love; man; means; men; mind; national; nature; nihilism; novel; novelist; order; peasant; people; place; poet; power; public; puchkine; race; realism; revolutionary; russian; society; sort; soul; spirit; state; study; time; tolstoï; truth; turguenief; war; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 41495.txt plain text: 41495.txt item: #29 of 49 id: 41751 author: Vámbéry, Ármin title: Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand date: None words: 139619 flesch: 75 summary: There are very few large warehouses or wholesale dealers; and in spite of cotton, calico, and fine muslin being sold, not only in the Restei Tchit Furushi (the place where cotton is exposed for sale), which has 284 shops, but also in many other places in the city, I might boldly affirm that my friends 'Hanhart and Company,' in Tabris, dispose alone of as much of the articles above named as the whole city of Bokhara, in spite of the latter being denominated the capital of Central Asia. He had a Tekkie (monastery), {232} where a limited number of students were instructed _à la_ Bokhara. keywords: 8vo; account; afghan; asia; author; bank; bilal; bokhara; bread; camels; capital; central; chapter; character; chief; chinese; city; companions; country; day; days; death; dervish; desert; direction; distance; east; edition; emir; english; evening; eyes; fcap; felt; following; footnote; form; friends; good; government; great; gömüshtepe; hadji; half; hands; having; head; herat; history; hours; illustrations; inhabitants; journey; karavan; kervanbashi; khan; khanat; khiva; khokand; kirghis; left; life; little; maymene; mehemmed; men; miles; mollah; morning; new; night; nomads; north; number; order; oxus; pass; people; persia; persians; place; point; political; post 8vo; present; prince; religion; return; rev; river; route; ruins; russian; samarcand; sea; second; sir; slaves; son; south; spite; state; sultan; teheran; tents; thought; time; timour; travellers; turkestan; turkish; turkomans; use; vols; war; water; way; wild; woodcuts; years; yomuts; young cache: 41751.txt plain text: 41751.txt item: #30 of 49 id: 42132 author: Edwards, William Seymour title: Through Scandinavia to Moscow date: None words: 59947 flesch: 72 summary: ] THROUGH SCANDINAVIA TO MOSCOW With Many Illustrations and Maps by WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS Author of In to the Yukon, etc. We have also to-day met many young men, tall and stalwart, clad in the dark blue uniform of the Norwegian National Guard. keywords: air; america; black; carriage; church; city; cold; come; copenhagen; czar; danish; day; denmark; england; english; eyes; feet; fine; fish; fjord; france; german; gold; good; government; half; hand; hotel; illustration; jew; king; kristiania; land; left; life; men; miles; morning; moscow; mountain; new; night; north; norway; norwegian; people; petersburg; river; road; room; russian; sea; set; snow; stockholm; streets; sweden; swedish; time; train; vand; waters; white; women; world; years cache: 42132.txt plain text: 42132.txt item: #31 of 49 id: 42540 author: Voltaire title: The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia date: None words: 125847 flesch: 57 summary: To the eastward of this sea, and at the junction of the Neva with the lake Ladoga,[4] is situated Petersburg, the most modern and best built city in the whole empire, founded by czar Peter, in spite of all the united obstacles which opposed its foundation. This young man was Michael Romanow,[18] grandfather to czar Peter, and son to the archbishop of Rotow, surnamed Philaretes, and of a nun, and related by the mother's side to the ancient czars. keywords: arms; army; battle; body; catherine; charles; church; city; countries; country; court; crown; czar; czar peter; day; death; dominions; emperor; empire; europe; father; france; general; government; grand; great; head; king; kingdom; laws; length; life; little; majesty; manner; master; means; men; moscow; nations; number; order; peace; people; person; peter; petersburg; poland; power; present; prince; river; russia; russians; sea; set; son; sovereign; state; subjects; sweden; swedish; thing; thought; throne; time; town; treaty; troops; turks; war; xii; year cache: 42540.txt plain text: 42540.txt item: #32 of 49 id: 43426 author: Winlow, Clara Vostrovsky title: Our Little Finnish Cousin date: None words: 20264 flesch: 81 summary: There are many women who are succeeding in architecture, little Maja. [Illustration: SHE CARRIED OUT A BASKET FILLED WITH CRUMBS AND GRAIN] On Christmas Eve little Maja scattered clean straw on all the floors. keywords: 12mo; blue; boys; children; cloth; cousin; day; decorative; feet; finland; good; house; juhani; lake; little; maja; man; men; night; people; reindeer; school; series; snow; stories; story; things; time; volume; way cache: 43426.txt plain text: 43426.txt item: #33 of 49 id: 43513 author: Mendel, Florence Emma Voigt title: Our Little Polish Cousin date: None words: 27130 flesch: 77 summary: The bishop of the church conducts the ceremony of the day with great solemnity; and the procession marches around the great square with banners and images of the Christ, while little flower girls, crowned with white flowers, scatter rose-petals from the dainty baskets hung from their shoulders. little Jan asked. keywords: 12mo; children; christmas; cloth; country; cousin=; day; family; girl; good; home; house; jan; life; little; man; marya; men; mother; mrs; ostrowska; peasants; people; poland; polish; room; story; time; village; way; year; young cache: 43513.txt plain text: 43513.txt item: #34 of 49 id: 43680 author: Denikin, Anton Ivanovich title: The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political date: None words: 133738 flesch: 60 summary: After all, the old Russian Army, albeit suffering from the deficiencies of the Russian people, had also the people's virtues, and particularly an exceptional power of endurance in facing the horrors of war. The old Russian Army was still strong enough to continue the war and to win victories. keywords: advance; alexeiev; armies; army; army commander; army committees; army corps; attitude; authority; brussilov; chapter; chief; commander; commanding; condition; country; course; day; days; democracy; discipline; duma; duty; end; enemy; general; general kornilov; german; government; great; idea; july; kerensky; kornilov; land; left; life; line; march; masses; means; members; military; minister; moral; national; officers; order; peace; people; petrograd; position; power; press; question; regiment; revolution; revolutionary; right; russian; self; social; soldiers; south; soviet; staff; state; stavka; struggle; supreme; time; troops; units; war; western; work; workmen cache: 43680.txt plain text: 43680.txt item: #35 of 49 id: 45167 author: Michie, Alexander title: The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. date: None words: 134917 flesch: 68 summary: The dogs of Siberia are of the ubiquitous breed which is common all over China, Japan, and many other countries, and is nearly akin to our own collie dog. Chapter XIV. Having therefore satisfied ourselves that we should be in good time to catch the steamer on the Baikal, which makes two trips a week, we resigned ourselves with a good conscience to the kind solicitations of our host. keywords: camels; carts; chapter; china; chinese; city; cold; condition; country; course; day; days; desert; distance; doubt; emperor; end; feet; foreign; general; good; got; government; great; ground; half; head; horses; hour; house; ice; irkutsk; journey; kiachta; kind; lama; land; left; life; like; little; man; means; miles; money; mongolia; mongols; morning; night; north; number; order; pass; peking; people; place; point; population; post; present; rest; river; road; room; russian; sheep; short; siberia; snow; state; station; tea; tent; tientsin; time; town; trade; travellers; travelling; tribes; use; valley; view; water; way; wind; winter; work; world; years cache: 45167.txt plain text: 45167.txt item: #36 of 49 id: 45845 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Russian Cousin date: None words: 16330 flesch: 88 summary: Once upon a time there was a man who knew little children and the kind of stories they liked, so he wrote four books of Sandman's stories, all about the farm or the sea, and the brig _ They pass many little villages as the express train rushes along. keywords: 12mo; beautiful; book; children; city; cloth; colonel; cousin; day; girl; good; home; ivan; mamma; papa; people; petrovna; russia; stories; story; tea; time cache: 45845.txt plain text: 45845.txt item: #37 of 49 id: 45994 author: Postnikov, Fedor Alexis title: Our Little Cossack Cousin in Siberia date: None words: 24743 flesch: 83 summary: Before any other food was served, small pieces of consecrated _pashka_ and an Easter cake called _kulich_ were passed around. As soon as we arrived at the village, a man was sent on the swiftest horse to be found, to the nearest _stannica_ keywords: boys; company; cossack; cousin; father; fish; footnote; head; home; horses; ice; little; man; men; mikhailov; mongalov; mother; night; peter; place; river; siberia; skorin; story; tiger; time; village; water; way cache: 45994.txt plain text: 45994.txt item: #38 of 49 id: 46242 author: Russell, William Howard, Sir title: The British Expedition to the Crimea date: None words: 305022 flesch: 65 summary: The officers in the Piedmontese, like those in the English Army, belong almost exclusively to the higher classes, and only rarely does an officer rise from the ranks, so that the distance between officer and soldier is not one of mere discipline, but social; and, however the spirit of Republicanism and the longing for equality may be developed in other states of Italy, Piedmont does not seem to be impregnated with it, and the system adopted of choosing for officers men from the higher classes answers very well. It is a little out of place, perhaps, to tell a story here about the extraordinary notions Jack had imbibed concerning the ownership of chattels and the distinction between _meum_ and _tuum_, but I may not have a better chance. keywords: admiral; advance; air; allies; alma; armies; arms; army; artillery; assault; attack; balaklava; batteries; battery; battle; black; board; boats; body; bridge; brigade; brigadier; british; brown; camp; captain; cavalry; centre; close; colonel; columns; command; corps; cossacks; country; course; crimea; dark; day; days; dead; deep; distance; division; effect; enemy; english; evening; expedition; feet; field; fine; fire; firing; flank; force; fort; french; general; george; good; ground; guards; guns; half; hand; head; heavy; heights; hill; horses; hour; house; infantry; inkerman; land; lay; left; lieutenant; like; line; little; lord; loss; major; malakoff; man; march; men; miles; military; moment; morning; new; north; number; o'clock; officers; open; operations; order; party; past; place; plain; point; position; quarters; raglan; rear; redan; regiment; rifle; right; river; road; royal; russians; saw; sea; sebastopol; second; service; shell; ships; shot; sidenote; sides; siege; sir; small; smoke; soldiers; south; staff; state; steamers; tchernaya; tents; time; town; trenches; troops; turkish; turks; valley; varna; walls; war; water; way; white; wind; winter; works; wounded; yards; | | cache: 46242.txt plain text: 46242.txt item: #39 of 49 id: 46407 author: Catherine II, Empress of Russia title: Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. Written by Herself date: None words: 100601 flesch: 72 summary: The physicians, and the attendants of the Grand Duke, who had not had the disease, sent to the Empress an exact report of the state of matters, and in the mean time, while my mother and the doctors were disputing, I lay in my bed, unconscious, in a burning fever, and with a pain in the side which occasioned intense suffering, and forced from me continual moanings, for which my mother scolded me, telling me that I ought to bear my sufferings patiently. On the 10th, the Empress celebrated the birthday of the Grand Duke. keywords: apartments; bed; bestoujeff; count; countess; day; days; duke; empress; end; evening; eyes; fact; good; grand; having; head; highness; holstein; house; husband; ill; left; leon; madame; madame tchoglokoff; majesty; man; marshal; matter; mind; moment; morning; moscow; mother; narichkine; night; oranienbaum; order; palace; people; person; peter; petersburg; present; prince; princess; room; russia; schouvaloff; soltikoff; summer; tchoglokoff; things; thought; time; way; wife; winter; word; years cache: 46407.txt plain text: 46407.txt item: #40 of 49 id: 46510 author: Gerrare, Wirt title: The Story of Moscow date: None words: 91474 flesch: 67 summary: In Moscow Ivan kept the grand-dukes, princes, and boyards his nearest relatives; his voievodes, or military leaders, were men of good birth, but with no claim on the succession. For Moscow Ivan did little: twice during his reign the town was destroyed by fire. keywords: alexis; best; boris; boyards; buildings; cathedral; century; chapel; chapter; church; churches; citizens; city; country; court; cross; day; days; death; dmitri; english; entrance; father; feet; fire; form; french; gate; god; golden; good; grand; great; head; holy; house; ikon; illustration; ivan; kremlin; left; life; man; men; michael; monastery; moscow; mother; muscovites; napoleon; near; new; novgorod; order; palace; patriarch; people; peter; poles; present; prince; reign; right; room; round; russia; russians; saviour; son; south; state; streltsi; tartars; terem; theodore; throne; time; tower; town; tsar; vasili; virgin; vladimir; wall; war; way; west; white; wife; work; years cache: 46510.txt plain text: 46510.txt item: #41 of 49 id: 4779 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era date: None words: 29826 flesch: 55 summary: No one knows how much the war has cost Russia hitherto. Russian Roulette Russia's Economy In Putin's Era 1st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003 First published by United Press International - UPI Not for Sale! keywords: american; bank; business; capital; central; class; countries; country; debt; economy; energy; europe; export; federal; financial; firms; foreign; funds; government; imf; industry; international; iraq; israel; kgb; market; middle; military; money; moscow; napoleon; new; oil; percent; president; putin; regions; russia; russians; sector; security; services; space; state; tax; times; trade; united; usa; war; west; western; world; year cache: 4779.txt plain text: 4779.txt item: #42 of 49 id: 48403 author: Wardrop, John Oliver title: The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song date: None words: 43573 flesch: 75 summary: Aided by the Lesghians and the Kakhetians, under Alexander, son of Irakli, they were at first successful, but the tide turned, and Erivan, Tavriz, and other places saw Russia victorious. He himself frankly acknowledged this in many places. keywords: 4to; 8vo; armenian; army; caucase; caucasus; century; church; city; country; course; david; day; der; des; die; english; european; feet; georgia; georgians; good; ground; half; history; house; irakli; journey; kakheti; kaukasus; king; land; left; lesghians; life; london; man; men; near; order; paris; pbg; people; persia; place; plain; present; prince; queen; right; river; road; russian; signakh; son; station; tamara; tiflis; time; town; und; village; vols; von; war; way; work; years cache: 48403.txt plain text: 48403.txt item: #43 of 49 id: 48479 author: Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy, baron de title: Travels in Kamtschatka, During the Years 1787 and 1788, Volume 1 date: None words: 46326 flesch: 68 summary: I had double deer-skin spatterdashes, with hair on both sides, and which are called in Kamtschatka _tchigi_. The roads obstructed with snow 167 Ostrog of Charom 168 Arrival at Vereknei Kamtschatka _ib._ Ivaschin, an unfortunate exile 170 Colony of peasants 172 Ostrog of Kirgann 175 Description of my dress 177 Visit the baron Stenheil at Machoure 180 New details respecting the chamans or sorcerers 181 Alarmed at a report of the Koriacs having revolted 188 Nikoulka rivers 191 Volcanos of Tolbatchina 192 Early marriages 194 I quit M. Kasloff to go to Nijenei Kamtschatka 195 Ostrog of Ouchkoff 196 Of Krestoff 197 Volcano of Klutchefskaïa 198 Klutchefskaïa inhabited by Siberian peasants _ib._ Ostrog of Kamini 201 Arrival at Nijenei _ib._ Entertainment given by the governor 204 Tribunals of Nijenei 207 Account of nine Japanese whom I found there 208 Departure from Nijenei Kamtschatka keywords: account; arrival; bolcheretsk; country; day; distance; dogs; fish; house; inhabitants; journey; kamtschadales; kamtschatka; kasloff; kind; left; manner; night; north; number; ostrog; place; rest; river; russian; saint; sea; snow; time; village; water; wersts; west; wind; women cache: 48479.txt plain text: 48479.txt item: #44 of 49 id: 54507 author: Novikova, Olga Alekseevna title: Russian Memories date: None words: 79007 flesch: 67 summary: For the poor people of England Russia was represented by the filth of the Ghetto and the crimes of the so-called political refugees; for the middle classes who read Seton Merriman, Russia was a fantastic country of revolutionaries and bloodthirsty police; but fortunately the ruling and upper classes always have had some better vision, they have had the means of travel, they have seen real representative Russians in their midst. The following words, also written in his diary, this time in the train when homeward bound after a summer spent abroad, are interesting in their charmingly expressed and idealistic patriotism: We are already nearing beloved Russia. keywords: alexander; british; brother; chapter; church; country; course; day; days; dear; death; duke; emperor; england; english; fact; friends; future; general; gladstone; god; good; government; grand; help; jews; kind; left; letter; life; lord; madame; man; moment; moscow; mother; nicholas; novikoff; opinion; peace; people; petrograd; poor; power; present; prince; prisoners; public; question; right; russia; russians; sympathy; time; village; war; words; work; world; years; young cache: 54507.txt plain text: 54507.txt item: #45 of 49 id: 56772 author: Ganz, Hugo title: The Land of Riddles (Russia of To-day) date: None words: 78099 flesch: 67 summary: The German Hanse towns strictly forbade their merchants to give Russian Jews goods on credit, to lend them money, or to borrow from them, under penalty of immediate punishment.[1] I had to acknowledge again how little we, in the West, know of Russian life. keywords: alexander; answer; art; artist; authorities; case; city; class; conditions; country; course; czar; day; end; eyes; fact; general; german; good; government; hand; head; house; impression; influence; jews; justice; life; light; man; master; means; men; minister; moscow; nation; nature; need; new; official; opinion; order; peasant; people; persons; petersburg; picture; place; plehve; police; polish; power; present; press; public; question; room; russian; régime; state; students; system; things; time; tolstoï; war; way; west; work; world; years cache: 56772.txt plain text: 56772.txt item: #46 of 49 id: 60315 author: Goldman, Emma title: My Disillusionment in Russia date: None words: 50720 flesch: 69 summary: One must have lived in Russia, close to the everyday affairs of the people; one must have seen and felt their utter disillusionment and despair to appreciate fully the disintegrating effect of the Bolshevik principle and methods--disintegrating all that was once the pride and the glory of revolutionary Russia. Soon we were to behold revolutionary Russia. keywords: america; anarchists; army; bolsheviki; children; city; communist; country; day; days; government; labour; left; life; makhno; man; material; methods; moscow; museum; new; party; peasants; people; petrograd; place; red; revolution; room; russia; régime; social; soviet; tcheka; thought; time; ukraina; visit; women; work; workers; world; years; zorin cache: 60315.txt plain text: 60315.txt item: #47 of 49 id: 60867 author: Hordynski, Joseph title: History of the Late Polish Revolution and the Events of the Campaign date: None words: 120490 flesch: 60 summary: Principles of the Revolution.--THE FIRST NIGHT.--Attack on the Barracks of the Russian Cavalry.--Their Dispersion.--Attempt to secure the person of the Grand Duke.--Capture of Russian general officers and spies.--Actions with detached bodies of Russian cavalry.--Two companies of Polish light-infantry join the patriots.--Death of Potocki and Trembicki.--The Russian infantry attacked and dispersed.--Armament and assembling of the people.--Detachments sent to Praga. Operations of the Lithuanian corps.--Battle of Raygrod and defeat of the Russian corps of Saken.--Importance of this first success in Lithuania.--General Gielgud neglects to follow up his advantages.--He loses time by passing the Niemen at Gielgudyszki, and enables the enemy to concentrate his forces in Wilno.--Entrance into Lithuania and reception by the inhabitants.--Position of the two main armies.--The Russian forces remain inactive and receive supplies from Prussia.--Death of marshal Diebitsch. keywords: act; advanced; arms; army; artillery; attack; battle; brave; cannon; cause; cavalry; chief; city; colonel; command; commander; corps; country; day; diebitsch; direction; division; duke; dwernicki; enemy; environs; fire; footnote; forces; forest; general; general chlapowski; general skrzynecki; government; grand; guard; infantry; left; lithuania; march; men; moment; nation; national; officers; operations; order; passage; people; pieces; place; plan; poland; poles; polish; position; prince; prisoners; reader; regiments; right; river; road; russian; soldiers; state; time; town; troops; vistula; warsaw; wing cache: 60867.txt plain text: 60867.txt item: #48 of 49 id: 6413 author: Trotsky, Leon title: From October to Brest-Litovsk date: None words: 32848 flesch: 56 summary: Such demands frequently came from the so-called Socialistic papers, also Kerensky, more and more openly, went over to the side of the Cadets and the Cadet generals, who had manifested not only their hatred of revolution, but also their bitter enmity toward revolutionary parties in general. Our opponents still would not yield, however, and did not admit that the question of government power was settled. keywords: army; assembly; bourgeoisie; class; coalition; committee; country; democratic; elements; garrison; general; government; kerensky; left; masses; military; negotiations; october; parties; party; peace; petrograd; petrograd soviet; power; revolutionary; revolutionists; russian; soldiers; soviet; time; war cache: 6413.txt plain text: 6413.txt item: #49 of 49 id: 8465 author: Kerner, Robert Joseph title: The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement date: None words: 25313 flesch: 59 summary: Before it was over he hoped to drag in prominent members of the Duma (or the Duma itself) and other revolutionary leaders, and make an end of them. This lasted for an hour or more and then came more soldiers announcing that all was well, that the supposed policemen were revolutionary soldiers who had come to take the oath of allegiance. keywords: coalition; council; country; croats; democratic; duma; fact; government; jugo; land; leaders; life; nation; national; new; order; party; peasants; people; revolution; russian; serbia; serbs; slav; slovenes; socialist; soldiers; state; time; tsar; war; workmen cache: 8465.txt plain text: 8465.txt