Word: czar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of St. Petersburg has been reopened by permission of the Czar...
...Russians, a man of middle age, was a medical student. As a teacher, a lay doctor, and the propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take his degree, and then to wander again as a physician and propagandist among the peasants...
...ablest men of the party in the Convictorium, and evinced an extended knowledge of the writers on political science. One characteristic of these student socialists which may surprise the reader, is their hatred of violence as a means in attaining their ends. They deplored unanimously the assassination of the Czar as an event which would weaken the cause. Their purpose was a thorough economical education of the laboring classes in order that they might use the ballot intelligently to secure those great reforms so sadly needed. The majority of the students were ardent followers of Carl Marx, and possessed...
...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg a Polyglot College, in which will be taught all the modern languages of any importance, and the tongues of all the nationalities, about seventy, under the Czar's sceptre. The purpose of this college is to prepare trust worthy and thorough interpreters for the diplomatic, consular, and military service, the civil officers and missionaries who have to deal with the different nations found in Russia, and mercantile agents who have to attend to the import and export trade. A Russian professor himself speaking over a score of languages says...
...reign of Alexander I. The minister of Alexander I. left a bequest of 50,000 roubles in charge of the Academy, with the conditions attached that the money, after accumulating for one hundred years, should be given to the writer of the best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation with its accretions will amount to $1,000,000 on the day for awarding the prize, it will be quite worth one's while to win it. The fact that the essay...