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Russia By a Recent Traveller

A Series of Letters

Charles Henry Pearson

First published in 1970 by Frank Cass and Company Limited

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ISBN 13: 978-0-367-11078-9 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-429-02469-6 (ebk)

RUSSIA THROUGH EUROPEAN EYES

No. 10

General Editor : Dr. A. G. CROSS, University of East Anglia

RUSSIA

BY A RECENT TRAVELLER

A SERIES OF LETTERS

CHARLES HENRY PEARSON

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY

Dr. A. G. CROSS

Published by

FRANK CASS AND COMPANY LIMITED

67 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3BT

First edition 1859

New impression

with new introductory note 1970

ISBN 0 7146 1542 0

Printed in Great Britain by Clarke, Doble & Brendan Ltd.

Plymouth and London

GENERAL EDITORS PREFACE

Charles Henry Pearson, author of the anonymously published Russia: By a Recent Traveller (1859), was born in London on 7 September 1830 and was educated at Rugby, Kings College, London, and Oxford between 1843 and 1853. He was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford in 1854 and in the following year became Lecturer, and soon Professor, in Modern History at Kings College, London.

The publication in the English press in December 1857 of the Imperial proclamation of the imminent emancipation of the Russian serfs prompted Pearson to plan a visit to Russia in the summer of 1858 to gain first-hand impressions of the state of the country and information about the problems connected with the Great Reform. He had apparently gained somewhat earlier a knowledge of the Russian language and numbered among his acquaintances Arthur Stanley, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, and William Spottiswoode, a graduate of Balliol College and author of a recent travel book on Russia, both of whom supplied Pearson with valuable letters of introduction. Pearson spent two months in Russia travelling with an Oxford friend, the Rev. Henry Boyd.

The fruits of this journey were his Letters, published in fifteen successive numbers of the weekly Continental Review, between 22 September and 29 December 1858. These appeared in book form early in 1859, but only 168 copies were sold, which accounts for the present rarity of the work. Pearsons book aroused the interest and enthusiasm of Alexander Herzen and Nicholas Ogaryov, Russian liberals living in exile in London. In a letter to the editor of the Continental Review, Herzen described the book as plein daperus dune largeur tout fait inconnue dans le monde de la vieille civilisation and wrote a review in his famous journal, The Bell, commending Pearsons impartiality and intelligence. There ensued a correspondence in French between Herzen and Pearson and Herzens eight letters to Pearson have been published in volume 30, book 2 of the recent Soviet edition of Herzens complete works (1965). Some months after the eventual emancipation of the serfs Pearson published an article entitled Old and New Russia in the Spectator (2 March 1861), which Herzen and Ogaryov had seen in manuscript and discussed with him. This represents his last writing on Russia, although his correspondence with Herzen continued until 1863.

Pearsons subsequent published work was devoted to English History, particularly of the early period, and in 1869 he became a lecturer in history at Trinity College Cambridge, where he remained until 1871. In that year he left England for Australia where in the space of the next twenty years he became successively a sheep farmer (1871 1873), lecturer in history at Melbourne University (1874 1875), headmaster of a Ladies Presbyterian College (1875 1877), member of the Legislative Assembly (1878 1891), including a term as an important and influential Minister of Education. He returned to England in 1891 where he died on 29 May 1894. An obituary notice and portrait were published in the Westminster Gazette on 1 June 1894. Important sources of information on Pearson are: R. E. Prothero, ed., Charles Henry Pearson, Memorials by Himself, His Wife, and His Friends (London, 1900); J. M. Tregenza, C. H. Pearson in Russia and his Correspondence with Herzen, Ogarev, and Others, 1858 1863, Oxford Slavonic Papers, XI (1964); J. Tregenza, Professor of Democracy: the Life of Charles Henry Pearson, 18301894, Oxford Don and Australian Radical, (Melbourne, London and New York, 1969).

University of East Anglia

20th May, 1970 A.G.C.

MERCHANT AND CLERK.
(From a Russian Caricature.)

RUSSIA,

BY A RECENT TRAVELLER:

A. SERIES OF LETTERS,

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE CONTINENTAL REVIEW.

Revised and Illustrated.

Tis wonder

That an invisible instinct should frame them

To royalty unlearned, honour untaught.

LONDON:

WILLIAM FRANCIS GRAHAM,

AT THE OFFICE OF THE CONTINENTAL REVIEW,

1A, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND.

1859.

CONTENTS.

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RUSSIA.

_______

FOR many years I had felt a great desire to visit Russia. The mere circumstance that the whole width of country between the Pacific and the Baltic between the Frozen Ocean and the Black Seashould be inhabited by one nation, speaking one language, owning one faith, and subject to one sovereign, appeared to me of singular interest. A residence of two summers in Bohemia made me acquainted with the fact that nearly half the subjects of the Austrian empire are rather Russian than German by affinities of language and thought, and by political sympathies. Even my scanty studies in Bohemian literature were sufficient to show me that the nation which commenced reform in Europe, and stood single-handed for thirty years against the world, was still inferior in its real powers to none among the peoples of Western Europe. It became, therefore, a new problem whether or not a third civilization was to rise, and a third development to be added to the Roman and German influences which Europe has undergone. From all I read of Russia I felt convinced that, even judging it from the Slavonic point of view, it was still many years behind France and England in the essentials of national life; but I was also inclined to believe that it was capable of growth. Naturally, therefore, I watched carefully the strong reaction in favour of internal reforms which appeared to be occupying the nation after their mad but heroic struggle in the East.

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