Russia in 1839 -Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia

FINANCIAL PHENOMENON.203

FINANCIAL PHENOMENONFINANCIAL REFORM OF THE EMPEROR`S.

MEANS TAKEN BY THE GOVERNOR OF NIJNI TO INDUCE THE

MERCHANTS TO OBEY. THEIR NOMINAL COMPLIANCE.EN

QUIRY INTO THEIR MOTIVES.IMPROVEMENTS AT NIJNI. — THE

SERF AND THE LORD.THE GOVERNOR OF NIJNI`S EXPLANATIONS

OF DESPOTIC ADMINISTRATION. FORBEARANCE OF THE AU

THORITIES. — A RIDE WITH THE GOVERNOR. VALUE OF THE

COMMODITIES AT THE FAIR OF •NIJNI.PORTRAIT OF FRENCH

MEN OF THE NEW S`CHOOL. AN AGREEABLE RENCONTRE.

DINNER AT THE GOVERNOR'S. ENGLISH ODDITIESANECDOTE

TOLD BY A POLISH LADY. THE UTILITY OF EASY MANNERS.

VISITS WITH THE GOVERNOR. THE BUREAUCRACY.THE

AUTHOR'S FELDJÄGER. FLAG OF MININE.BAD FAITH OF THE

GOVERNMENT. — MODERN VANDALISM.PETER THE GREAT.

FRENCH CHARACTER. THE TRUE GLORY OF NATIONS. THE

KREMLIN OF NIJNI. THE GOVERNOR'S CAMP. SONG OF THE

SOLDIERS. — CHURCH OF THE STROGONOFFS. — RUSSIAN VAUDEVILLE.

This year, immediately before opening the fair, the governor called around him the ablest commercial heads in Russia, then assembled together at Nijni, and laid before them, in detail, the long-ago-acknowledged and deplored inconveniences of the monetary system of the empire.

The reader is, aware that there are in Russia two representative signs of commodities — paper and silver money ; but he, perhaps, does not know that the latter, by a singularity that is unique, I believe, in financial history, is constantly varying in value, whilst the worth of the former remains fixed. Nothing but a к 6