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Updated: June 28, 2025
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The ordinary muzhik can hardly conceive that the Emperor's power can be limited by a law or an Assembly, and if the idea were suggested to him, he would certainly not approve. In his opinion the Tsar should be omnipotent. If everything is not satisfactory in Russia, it is because the Tsar does not know of the evil, or is prevented from curing it by the tchinovniks and the landed proprietors.
A Russian village, situated in the midst of German colonies, shows generally, so far as I could observe, no signs of German influence. Each nationality lives more majorum, and holds as little communication as possible with the other. The muzhik observes carefully for he is very curious the mode of life of his more advanced neighbours, but he never thinks of adopting it.
Not for a moment or two does she answer; and when she does so she answers as though the words have been rehearsed. "Not particularly. So I am very sorry for him. A good muzhik ought to be well placed." On the bell of the church there strikes the hour of two. Without interrupting herself, the woman crosses her breast at each stroke.
On that subject I feel inclined to put in a plea of extenuating circumstances in favour of the muzhik.
The city square was bathed in the bright sunlight. A muzhik appeared and shouted at the top of his voice: "Hey there! Stand up for your gov'r-ment, and for holy Russia!" Another muzhik came in answer to his shout, then a third and a fourth. Slowly and steadily the crowd grew, the turmoil increased.
The muzhik turned a deaf ear to their instigations, and the police soon prevented their further activity. Thus the would-be root-and-branch reforms found themselves in a dilemma. Either they must abandon their schemes for the moment or they must strike immediately at their persecutors.
There stood the patient bearded muzhik in his well-worn sheepskin; the big, burly, self-satisfied merchant in his long black glossy kaftan; the noble with fashionable great-coat and umbrella; thinly clad old women shivering in the cold, and bright-eyed young damsels with their warm cloaks drawn closely round them; old men with long beard, wallet, and pilgrim's staff; and mischievous urchins with faces for the moment preternaturally demure.
All of which inspired Mokei Budirin, a grey-headed muzhik of a cast of countenance canine in the prominence of his jaws and the recession of his forehead, and taciturn withal, though not otherwise remarkable, to give slow, nasal utterance to his favourite formula. "That is true enough," he said.
With a frown the fair-headed muzhik eyed him, while the foreman returned the muzhik's gaze with a scrutiny that never wavered. Finally the elder man commented with cold severity: "All the mischief has come of vodka and tobacco, the devil's drugs."
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