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J.R. FISHER. Finland and the Tsars, 1800-1899. 1899. 12s. 6d. The best account in English of the history of Finland's relations with Russia up to the beginning of the reactionary period. K.P. POBIEDONOSTSEV. Reflections of a Russian Statesman. 1898. 6s. For Slavophilism. P. KHOPOTKIN. Memoirs of a Revolutionist. 1907. 6s. MAURICE BARING. Russian Literature.
For decades past he had been regarded as the most influential man in Russia as a power, in fact, who had constantly thwarted the plans of the leading statesmen and had carried his opinions through with unswerving energy. This solitary malcontent was Pobiedonostsev, the Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod, who, despite his grey hairs, was detested only less than he was feared.
Alexander III. was much influenced by his tutor, Pobiedonostsev, who for the next thirty years was the most prominent exponent of the philosophy of Slavophilism. This, which in its modern form may be traced back to 1835, was in fact nothing else than a perverted glorification of the Russian national characteristics which have been dwelt upon above.
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