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

236 MURDER OF A GERMAN LANDHOLDER.

ASSASSINATION OF A GERMAN LANDHOLDER. — RUSSIAN AVERSION

TO INNOVATIONS. CONSEQUENCES OF THE ESTABLISHED STATE

OF THINGS.SERVILITY OF THE PEASANTS. EXILE OF M.

GUIBAL. A MUSCOVITE WITCH. A SICK MAN AMONG HIS

FRIENDS IN RUSSIA. RUSSIAN CHARITY. A PASSION FOR

TOMBS. NOCTURNAL LESSONS IN ETIQUETTE.GYPSIES AT THE

FAIR. —THE VIRTUES OF OUTCASTS. VICTOR HUGO. PROJECT

OF VISITING KAZAN ABANDONED.MEDICAL ADVICE.IDEAS OF

THE RUSSIANS RESPECTING FREE GOVERNMENTS. VLADIMIR.

THE FORESTS OF RUSSIA. THE USE OF A FELDJÄGERFALSE

DELICACY IMPOSED UPON FOREIGNERS. CENTRALISATION.

RENCONTRE WITH AN ELEPHANT. AN ACCIDENT.RETURN TO

MOSCOWA FAREWELL TO THE KREMLIN.EFFECT PRODUCED

BY THE VICINITY OF THE EMPEROR. -— MILITARY FETE AT BORO

DINO. THE AUTHOR'S MOTIVES FOR NOT ATTENDING. PRINCE

WITGENSTEIN. HISTORICAL TRAVESTY.

A M. Jament related to me, at Nijni, that a German, the new lord of a village, a great agriculturalist and a propagator of modes of husbandry still unused in this country, has just been assassinated on his own domains, contiguous to those of a M. Merline, another foreigner, through whom the fact has come to our knowledge.

Two men presented themselves to this German lord, under the pretext of purchasing horses of him ; and in the evening they entered his chamber and murdered him. It was, I am assured, a blow aimed by the peasants of the foreigner in revenge for the

* Written at Vladimir, between Nijni and Moscow, the 2d of September.