Even if cultural conditions in Russia have not attained the level of the other states of Europe, the government pays careful attention to the development of education, and Orthodox Russia has not closed herself off in so a priori a manner to the sciences as is the case of strictly Catholic countries.
aprioriRussia’s scientific accomplishments, her admirably edited journals, in all fields, such as the Moskovitianin, for example, her learned men and the poets of whom she may justly boast — Karamzin, Dierzhavin, Pushkin, Gogol, Shevirev — would be the pride of any nation.
MoskovitianinThe might of the Russian state is in a healthy ratio to its total power. It possesses extensive property, and its peacetime army counts more than 700,000 men — though some estimate the number to be one million
