XII. Trade and Industry
...Peter made the merchants ( more important )

XI. Peasants and Proprietors
...A Western farmer habituated to the microscopic niceties ( of intensive culture )

XI. Peasants and Proprietors
...A subtle fatalism seems to be latent in the homes ( of the gentry )

XI. Peasants and Proprietors
...Siberia is, in fact, ( the Russian America. )

VIII. The Theatre
...Stanislavsky has described scenic art in the sense in which it is cultivated in the Moscow theatre as “An artistic unfolding of the life of human spirit.”

VII. Music
...The people is, in fact, musically in a helpless position( at the present moment. )

VII. Music
...The Russians are a people for whom music is a delight. ( The air is full of music )

VI. Literature
...Tolstoy once said to me at the beginning of 1905:-
“The writers of the present day write well. Every young lady knows how to write better than Turgeniev or I. But the trouble is that they have nothing to say.”

VI. Literature
...It is frequently asserted ( that Chehov )

VI. Literature
...Saltykov's extremely idiomatic style and ( the obscurity of many )