The Russians at Home and the Russians Abroad: Sketches, Unpolitical and Political, of Russian Life Under Alexander II.W.H. Allen, 1879 |
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Seite 233 - ... arrangement, and promised to make a report of my suggestion to his Government. His Excellency called upon me this morning, and had the goodness to leave in my hands the copy, herewith...
Seite 296 - The Russians are steadily advancing towards India, and they will, (i) Alexis Krause, Russia in Asia, a Record and a Study, London and New York, 1899. sooner or later, acquire a position in Central Asia which will enable them to threaten it. Should England be engaged in a European war, then, indeed, Russia will probably strike a blow at England's Indian power.
Seite 281 - Steppes of Central Asia. This oasis, situated in the midst of an ocean of sand, would become the point of reunion for all the commerce of Asia, AND WOULD SHAKE TO THE CENTRE OF INDIA THE ENORMOUS COMMERCIAL SUPERIORITY OF THE DOMINATORS OF THE SEA*.
Seite 90 - It keeps the peasantry in their present path of " self-will " (lawlessness), leads to the absence of all public order and decorum, to depravity, robbery, drunkenness, &c. Moral dissolution, utter impoverishment and bankruptcy of the taxpayer — these are the final results of the present state of affairs. The rights of property were never very strictly observed by the peasantry, and it is the same now. Crimes against those rights are not only daily but hourly on the increase. Their number cannot...
Seite 284 - The Russian ambassador, who is always with the Shah, has sent you a letter, which I enclose. The substance of his verbal messages to you is, that if the Shah does everything you want, so much the better, and if not, the Russian government will furnish you (the Ameers) with everything wanting. The object of the Russian Elchee, by this message, is to have a road to the English (India), and for this they are very anxious.
Seite 263 - The seventh clause of the Czar's order directed Prince Bekovitch to ask the Khan for vessels, " and to send a merchant in them to India by the Amu-Darya (Oxus), ordering the same to ascend the river as far as vessels can go, and from thence to proceed to India, remarking the rivers and lakes, and describing the way by land and water, but particularly the water-way to India by lake or river, returning from India the same way ; or, should the merchant hear in India of a still better way to the Caspian...
Seite 305 - ... been done lately in Russia is indeed unparalleled, not only in the history of Russia, but in that of any other nation. The Society, or rather the people, without the help of the Government (which is unconditionally true to its diplomatic obligations), and without the help of any official organisation, carry on a war in the person of some thousands of her sons (I say sons, not hirelings), at their own expense, in a country which, though bound to ours by strong ties of relationship, is little known...
Seite 274 - India for the purpose of driving away the English from this beautiful country which they have subjected — a country formerly so remarkable for its industry and its wealth, and which it is now proposed to open to all the world, that the inhabitants may profit by the riches and other advantages given to them by Heaven.
Seite 275 - France and Russia with the liveliest interest ; and the two Governments have resolved to unite their forces in order to liberate India from the tyrannical and barbarous yoke of the English. Accordingly, the princes and populations of all countries through which the combined armies will pass need fear nothing. On the contrary, it behoves them to help with all their strength and means so benevolent and glorious an undertaking ; the object of this campaign being in all respects as just as was unjust...
Seite 243 - ... probable that if Russia were satisfied that we had no jealousy of her attempts to dominate and civilise the countries east of the Caspian, as far south as the Attreck and the Oxus, she would be only too glad to know that we considered that frontier as fixed as her own is in Eastern Europe, and to find our officers, as her frontier neighbours, prepared to use the vast moral influence at our command to ensure to her reasonable satisfaction in the event of just cause of offence being given by the...