THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph by Nevin O. Winter 



A LANDLORD CROWNING RUTHENIAN PEASANT GIRLS IN A HARVEST CEREMONY 



The four million Ukrainians who live in the province of Galicia, under Austrian sway, are 



called Ruthenians 



enormous. Each successive Czar has 

 visited it not infrequently and always 

 gave a large donation. 



What the attitude of the new leaders 

 of the Ukraine toward this monastery 

 will be remains to be seen. The revolu- 

 tionary movement as a whole has been 

 anti-clerical and shows a revolt against 

 the former influence of the church in 

 Russia. 



The monks do not live the ascetic lives 



of their ancestors, although the food still 

 seems plain. Coarse bread is always 

 served, fish frequently, but meat and wine 

 are not unseldom. One monk always 

 reads from the lives of saints while the 

 others eat. The monks seat themselves 

 on benches and they eat off pewter plat- 

 ters. There is an inn at which many stop 

 who can pay, but the fare is too plain for 

 most people. Then there is also a free 

 lodging quarter, where the poorer ones 



