Front matter
Reading edition
His Excellency A. S. Yermeloff
To whom the book is dedicated
ABUSED RUSSIA
BY
Dr. C. C. YOUNG
NEW YORK
THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY
437 FIFTH AVENUE
Copyright, 1915, by
THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY
Dedicated
TO ONE OF RUSSIA’S GREAT MEN, HIS EXCELLENCY A. S. YERMOLOFF, LIFE MEMBER OF HIS MAJESTY’S COUNCIL, TO WHOM I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE NUMEROUS COURTESIES SHOWN ME WHILE TRAVELING IN RUSSIA, AND FOR HIS INTEREST IN SUBMITTING MY ARTICLES TO HIS GRACIOUS EMPEROR, NICHOLAS II
CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface 11
Chapter I
Some False Impressions 17
Chapter II
A Bit of Early Russian History 31
Chapter III
The Russian Temperament 41
Chapter IV
The Religious View of the Russian 47
Chapter V
The Cossack 53
Chapter VI
The Passport System 57
Chapter VII
Regarding a New Treaty with Russia 66
Chapter VIII
The Russian Jews 70
Chapter IX
Asiatic Possessions 83
Note 101
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
His Excellency A. S. Yermeloff Frontispiece
A Russian Danceuse in the National Costume of a Tadjick Woman of Bokhara 17
The Church of Resurrection of Petrograd 18
His Excellency, Acting Governor-General Galkin of West Turkestan 20
Cathedral of St. Basil 22
The “Tzar Kolokol” or Monarch of Bells, Moscow 24
Village Authorities in South Russia 28
Tadjick Justice of Peace of Bokhara 30
Afghan “Ishan” Collecting Money in the Name of Allah 32
Turcomans 34
Heir to the Throne of Afghanistan 36
Typical Peasants of Great Russia 38
Typical “White” Russians 40
A Little Russian Girl-Milkmaid of Kiev 42
Ivan Ivanovitch 44
Preparing for the “Shachse Wachse” Celebration 47
The “Shachse Wachse” Celebration 48
The “Kremlin,” Moscow 50
Registan Square in Front of Mechet Shir Dor in Samarkand 53
Karavan of Afghans Crossing the Amu Daria River at Kerki 57
Dr. C. C. Young in Kara Kum Desert 60
His Majesty the Khan of Khiva, West Turkestan, Central Asia 64
Komrat Real School 71
Mr. Konstantin Aleksandrovitch Mimi 72
A Hebrew Woman of Bokhara 76
“Gorodovoy”—Russian Policeman 78
The “Pristav”—District Chief of Police 80
Acting Governor Karaul Begi 82
The Atachadja Mirachur 82
Two Afghan Soldiers 84
Treacherous Daghas of Afghanistan 84
Author’s Father, Mr. Christian Young, Sr. 86
Guri-Mir, Mausoleum of Timur 88
Karakul Ewe and Lamb 90
The Famous “Arba” of West Turkestan 92
The Inhabitants of Khiva, West Turkestan 94
Interior of the Summer Palace of the Emir 96
A Tekin Wedding 98
The Minaret, the Tower of Death, in Old Bokhara City 100
Entrance to Old Fort of Old Palace 102
Khirgiz Women and Children in West Turkestan 106
High-Class, Veiled, Sart Woman 108