GERMANS IN RUSSIA 



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Germans ajnong the older officers than among the younger 

 ones ; because in the advance of civilisation the Russians 

 are gradually getting to do without foreign instructors. In 

 olden days all the apothecaries and nearly all the bakers 

 were Germans. Even now the majority of the druggists are 

 of that nationality. Formerly, Russian gentlemen were more 

 or less ashamed of their language. French was spoken at 

 court, and their writers thought that the highest form of 



Photo by] [L. C. Gorodetzky, Tzarskoe Selo. 



FIG. 10. Borzoi belonging to H.I.M. the Tzar. 



Russian literature was a servile-^copy of Racine or Byron. 

 Now, Russia has a literature of its own, which, owing to the 

 absence of copyright reciprocity with other countries, is 

 largely diluted with translations and pirated illustrations : 

 the court language is also Russian. Germans having been 

 a favoured nation for a ^ long time, are naturally regarded 

 with jealousy and dislike, which feelings are in no way 

 extended to the French, with whom the Russians have 



