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When the general, who did not hear of it till it was
all over, afterwards said to the soldiers: “He must
have suffered terribly,” they answered: “Oh, no!
(Nitchevo!) we stamped the earth down hard with our
feet.”
This mingling of gentleness and ferocity is remarkable.
It is typical of the Russian common people. What is
otherwise inexplicable becomes clear when we see the
utter darkness of the ignorance in which the soul of the
poor Russian peasant vegetates.
In all probability, also, the strife with the natural
conditions has developed the practical qualities with the
Great-Russian,—the taste for that which is available
and useful in handiwork. In this aspect, it is suggestive
that the most celebrated and most typical Russian,
Peter the Great, when he wanted to reform his country,
felt himself drawn to the mechanical inventions above
everything else. Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, in his
characteristics of that monarch, has pertinently made prominent
that, on his journeys, he did not visit the universities, but
the workshops and the dock-yards; that he brought back
to Russia anatomy, surgery, the art of the apothecary,
mechanics, ship-building, engineering, as well as a whole
army of workmen and master mechanics,—but that there
were no learned men or thinkers in his train. With his
own hands he essayed the whole range of manual labor:
entered the army as a drummer, served in the navy as a
pilot, knew how to build boats, forge iron, and engrave.
In the armory in the palace of the Kremlin, in Moscow,
there is shown a horseshoe which he hammered out on
the anvil, and a bowl which he modelled. The genial
muzhik shines out through this ruler as through so
many a gifted Russian nobleman.
As the severity of the climate is the cause of certain
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