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I'luito by Gilbert II. Grosvcnor 

 A TRAFFIC POLICEMAN : PETROGRAD 



The official in Russia who has not at least six medals to display is unhappy indeed; 

 but the medals are not worn in a spirit of vanity. Their possession gives self-confidence 

 and inspires devotion, not arrogance or conceit. The Russian likes to feel that his zeal, 

 faithfulness, and ability are recognized by his superiors, and wears his decorations con- 

 stantly, so that all may see them. Nor does the fact that medals are almost as common as 

 buttons give them any less distinction or value. This policeman was originally a moujik, 

 for the peasants, with training and experience, make splendid policemen and soldiers. No- 

 where in Europe is there a finer body of men than the policemen in Petrograd, Moscow, 

 Nizhni-Novgorod, and the other big cities of Russia, all of them originally peasants. 



enough to offset the present population 

 of all the continents except Asia. 



RUSSIA A YOUNG NATION COMPARED TO 

 ENGIvAND 



From such a record of size, of bigness 

 in everything, we should expect Russia 

 to be an old nation, like Great Britain, 



with perhaps a thousand years of un- 

 hindered growth behind her. But, as a 

 matter of fact, Russia is a youth among 

 the nations compared to England, a 

 stripling whose full stature and breadth 

 are still a subject of conjecture and spec- 

 ulation. 



Russia is young because she never had 



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