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If a Russian autocrat has succeeded in making himself look like an Englishman, and behaves like one, he is happy. Of winter sports in which, however, but a small minority of the Russian youth care to take part there are skating, ice-yatching, snow-shoeing, and ice-hilling. The skating ought, naturally, to be very good in Russia.
Some of the Russian amateurs skate marvellously, as also do many of the English and other foreign residents. Ice-yachting is confined almost entirely to these latter, the natives not having as yet awakened to the merits of this fine pastime. Ice-hilling, however, at fair-time that is, during the carnival week, preceding the "long fast" or Lent is much practised by the people.
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