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Identifier: russia00dobsrich (find matches)
Title: Russia;
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Dobson, George Grove, Henry M Stewart, Hugh, 1884-1934 Haenen, F. de
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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assistance tothe police, and obey the latters orders. They have,further, to keep the roadway clean in front of theirdomicile, and make themselves generally useful.The dens—for they can be called nothing else—in which they live in the yards are mostly half,or quite, underground. It is calculated that,with more than 30,000 houses in St. Petersburg,besides mills, factories, etc., there is an army ofabout 90,000 of these uncouth peasants, who, with-out any training whatever, virtually control theindoor organization of the Russian capital. The dvorniks immediate superior, thQ gorodovoi*or policeman, deserves honourable mention onaccount of the great dangers which he bra\edduring the extraordinary outbreak of expropria-tion, indiscriminate murder, and hooliganism threeyears ago. Hundreds, if not thousands, of police-men all over Russia were then killed and injured,and those of St. Petersburg came in for their fullshare of suitering. One of the surviving eliects of* From gorod = \,oyin.
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THK FROZEX-MKAT MAKKKl TYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS 14) that period of jacquerie may still be seen whenmoney is being conveyed from the State Bank orthe Mint. A troop of cavalry with drawn swordsand armed policemen on bicycles surround thewaggons carrying the coins or notes, and no oneis allowed to come within reach of the sabres ofthe escort, which are swung about in a menacingmanner if any attempt is made to approach toonear to the treasure thus being carted through thestreets. And yet the St. Petersburg constable hasnot been more brutalized, as might be expected,by all that he has had to go through since 1904.On the contrary, he is much less rough, and farmore attentive to the general public. He nowhesitates to provoke retaliation by too much rude-ness towards the lower orders, who are beginningto show signs of a nascent self-respect. It mustbe admitted in this connection that the police havebeen severely taught to be civil to the public bythe present Gradonatchalnik. With all this tr

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