This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...of the emperor, however stringent they may be. The circumstance recorded above is a recent affair, but at the commencement of his reign, Nicholas made several attempts to remedy existing evils; but, as we said before, in a semibarbarous country like Russia, with ignorance on the one hand, and systematic and long-rooted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...of the emperor, however stringent they may be. The circumstance recorded above is a recent affair, but at the commencement of his reign, Nicholas made several attempts to remedy existing evils; but, as we said before, in a semibarbarous country like Russia, with ignorance on the one hand, and systematic and long-rooted fraud on the other, enlightened justice is everywhere impeded. Schnitzler tells us that "as early as the first weeks of the reign of Nicholas, an extreme activity was imparted to the department of the interior administration; the emperor was desirous of seeing and knowing everything in person; at a moment when he was least expected, he would visit the establishments of the crown; almost all of them were examined by him during the earlier months, excepting the senate, in which, at the time of the coronation, he had not yet set his foot. Until he could also visit the provinces, he sent inspectors into all the different seats of government, and sad reports were transmitted to him from every quarter: 2,749 ukases of the senate, decreed since the year 1821, had been neglected; in the single government of Koursk, 660 documents of this kind had remained buried in portfolios." The governors were severely repi-imanded, and desired to explain their conduct and regulate their accounts; for this, the ministers would have allowed them a year, but the emperor reduced the term to three months, and warned these functionaries, that in case of any recurrence of their faults, they would be prosecuted before the criminal court. Then some terrible abuses with regard to criminal law came to his ears, and governors were reprimanded or deposed, and "Peter Poletika, an honest senator, was charged with a general inspection, which the ministers themselve...
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