TATAR GIRL 



CHAPTER XLVII. 



RUSSIAN CORRUPTION. 



St, Petersburg — The Turkish War — Corruption of Russian Officials — 

 Commercial Morality — Russian Servants — Turkish Misrule — Christianity 

 of the Turks — Childishness of the Russian Peasants — Russian Conserva- 

 tism — Financial Condition of Russia. 



When we arrived in St. Petersburpr we found, as migrht 

 naturally be expected, that the one topic of conversation 

 was the war. Everybody from the Emperor downwards 

 was disappointed. No one imagined that there could be 



