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of the Volga; the Governor of the city and all the prominent
inhabitants were to be present at the ceremony. I have before
mentioned the great number of days on which all work must
be suspended. There are 111 saints’ days in the calendar to
be celebrated, of which 76 are compulsory everywhere, and
some of the remainder in different parts. Then there are
the seven Imperial festivals, besides Sundays.

A PICNIC PARTY.

It was now, or should have been, the busiest time of the
whole year. In the country there was the year’s sowing to
be done, and the Volga was but newly opened for traffic. Yet
the shops in the city were closed, and large numbers of people
from the country had come up to take part in the festivities.

I started out myself to swell the crowd of idle onlookers.
As I walked through the streets some peculiar-looking placards
on the wall of a square attracted my attention. On closer
acquaintance they proved to be compilations of the coarsest
lies and slanders against the Stundists; some of them made
up of extracts from the Russian newspapers. They were, of
course, placed thus conspicuously to excite the fanaticism of
the Orthodox mob. The Stundists themselves have no
possibility of redress or defence allowed them, and interference

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