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Updated: June 20, 2025
The Russian people, he said, were now in the same condition as in the time of Alexis, the father of Peter the Great, when Stenka Razin, a robber chieftain, placed himself at the head of a terrible insurrection.
ODOWALSKY. The spring has decked them with her trim array; A teeming harvest clothes the fruitful soil. DEMETRIUS. The view is lost in limitless expanse. RAZIN. Yet is this but a small beginning, sire, Of Russia's mighty empire. For it spreads Towards the east to confines unexplored, And on the north has ne'er a boundary, Save the productive energy of earth.
They sang of Stenka Razin, the bandit chief, who kept the Volga and the Caspian Sea in a state of terror during the reign of Peter the Great's father; of his "poor people, good youths, fugitives, who were no thieves nor brigands, but only Stenka Razin's workmen."
One magnificent period in literature unfolded itself in the eleventh century A.D., in the little courts of Seville, of Murcie, of Malaga, Valence, Toledo, and Badajos. The kings, like El Nis Sasim, El Mo'hadhid, El Mishamed, Hbn Razin, rank among the best poets, and even the women answered with talent to the verses which they inspired.
At a later period the Don Cossacks twice raised formidable insurrections first under Stenka Razin , and secondly under Pugatchef and during the war between Peter the Great and Charles XII. of Sweden the Zaporovians took the side of the Swedish king. The Government naturally strove to put an end to this danger, and ultimately succeeded.
In short, all the passengers on the schooner had been shouting and laughing and singing, while the great bearded peasants had also been paying assiduous court to a large leathern bottle which had lain ensconced on a heap of peach-sacks, with the result that the scene had come to have about it something of the antique, legendary air of the return of Stepan Razin from his Persian campaign.
The young people who now leave their place in society and lead the life of the people would form an invincible, collective Stenka Razin, who would put themselves at the head of the fight for emancipation, and carry it through successfully. For this purpose they should not merely turn to the peasants and make them revolt, but also call in the help of robbers.
What was I frightened of? how could I miss such an opportunity?... I might have seen Caesar himself and I was senseless with terror, I whimpered and turned away, like a child at the sight of the rod. Razin, now that's another matter. As a nobleman and landowner ... though, indeed, even then what had I really to fear? Coward! coward!... 'But wasn't it all a dream? I asked myself at last.
"We air, Sur," sed the feroshus woman "we belong to a Society whitch beleeves wimin has rites whitch beleeves in razin her to her proper speer whitch beleeves she is indowed with as much intelleck as man is whitch beleeves she is trampled on and aboozed & who will resist henso4th & forever the incroachments of proud & domineering men."
And when he had put the sword back in its place, he bent forward and leaned on the back of it. "Yes, I could be cruel, I expect," he said. "I could be even brutal if I were jealous, or the woman I loved played me false, but I would not be cruel to her while it hurt myself. Razin lost his pleasure for days through one mad personal act.
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