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lously white , be hurled to the ground to roll in the infecting filth of every social immorality . O , day of liberty , when will the rays of thy sun gleam on the brow and bosom of my country , now bleeding , fettered , tortured by a vile horde of vagabonds , come no one knows from , whence , leading us God only knows where ? Let us hope , my brothers , let us hope in God , for His holy spirit ; the spirit of liberty is still with us , and a day will come when we shall triumphantly destroy the throne moulded from the mud of orthodoxy , cemented
from the sweat , the tears , the clotted blood of generations , mangled by these Cains , crowned at the assumption of Moscow ! And then , my brothers , we will sing the joyous hallelujahs of liberty ; and then , my brothers , we will raise on the pulverised wrecks of this monstrous throne , on this heap of iniquities , daily washed by our blood during so many ages , another throne—the throne of the Universal God ! and we will raise another kingdom , without royalty or royalism- —the kingdom of God ! and on these remains of the past , purified by fire and popular indignation , our glorious names shall be inscribed . "
It was towards the north that the remains of the opposition principally turned * for there they met with more safety than elsewhere * The north of Russia is an immense solitude covered with virgin forests , and cut up with impracticable morasses and barren steppes . Three or four towns of scarcely any consequence , a few boroughs
and villages scattered at great distances , contained a scanty and primitive population , ignorant of all that was unconnected with their daily lives , having but a vague , confused idea of the Czar , and scarcely knowing more of Grod than His name . Such were and are the only places where the remains of the patriots could seek an asylum from the harsh policy already bent on destroying them .
There have been many discussions on the reasons which induced Peter the Great to found his capital in the north of his vast empire * "We have not the least doubt that the principal cause was his wish to be near the centre of the opposition , which always fled to the north . IsTovogorod and Pskof had been free towns , and allies of the Hanse .
Traditions of their ancient Slavonic freedom were still preserved among the people . The Novogorodiens yet remembered Vadimer the Brave and Martha Boretzkaia daring their oppressors . Liberty might be driven from the towns , but she still wandered by the lakes of Belo-ozea and Onejskoie , in the solitudes of Olonetz and the Arkhanghelesk , and on the shores of the "White Sea .
This latter , an immense gulf , stretches far up into the land , and forms two great bays at its meridional extremity ; to the east is the bay of Arkhanghelesk ; and on the west of this latter , separated from it by a narrow slip of land , lies the gulf of Onega , whose mouth is barred by an archipelago of from thirty to forty isles . The largest of them , whose circumference is about forty leagues , bears the name
of Solovelski-Ostrof , and is famous for the monastery of the same name , the largest in the north of Russia , and lying some sixty leagues distant from Arkhangelsk . A considerable borough is built round this , whose inhabitants principally occupy themselves in fishing and preparing the purest isinglass , and also in accommodating the numerous pilgrims who visit the place ; chiefly in tho summer , however , when superstition has thus withdrawn them from their short time of harvest . The borough , containing several streets , VOTi . it . m
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lously white , be hurled to the ground to roll in the infecting filth of every social immorality . O , day of liberty , when will the rays of thy sun gleam on the brow and bosom of my country , now bleeding , fettered , tortured by a vile horde of vagabonds , come no one knows from , whence , leading us God only knows where ? Let us hope , my brothers , let us hope in God , for His holy spirit ; the spirit of liberty is still with us , and a day will come when we shall triumphantly destroy the throne moulded from the mud of orthodoxy , cemented
from the sweat , the tears , the clotted blood of generations , mangled by these Cains , crowned at the assumption of Moscow ! And then , my brothers , we will sing the joyous hallelujahs of liberty ; and then , my brothers , we will raise on the pulverised wrecks of this monstrous throne , on this heap of iniquities , daily washed by our blood during so many ages , another throne—the throne of the Universal God ! and we will raise another kingdom , without royalty or royalism- —the kingdom of God ! and on these remains of the past , purified by fire and popular indignation , our glorious names shall be inscribed . "
It was towards the north that the remains of the opposition principally turned * for there they met with more safety than elsewhere * The north of Russia is an immense solitude covered with virgin forests , and cut up with impracticable morasses and barren steppes . Three or four towns of scarcely any consequence , a few boroughs
and villages scattered at great distances , contained a scanty and primitive population , ignorant of all that was unconnected with their daily lives , having but a vague , confused idea of the Czar , and scarcely knowing more of Grod than His name . Such were and are the only places where the remains of the patriots could seek an asylum from the harsh policy already bent on destroying them .
There have been many discussions on the reasons which induced Peter the Great to found his capital in the north of his vast empire * "We have not the least doubt that the principal cause was his wish to be near the centre of the opposition , which always fled to the north . IsTovogorod and Pskof had been free towns , and allies of the Hanse .
Traditions of their ancient Slavonic freedom were still preserved among the people . The Novogorodiens yet remembered Vadimer the Brave and Martha Boretzkaia daring their oppressors . Liberty might be driven from the towns , but she still wandered by the lakes of Belo-ozea and Onejskoie , in the solitudes of Olonetz and the Arkhanghelesk , and on the shores of the "White Sea .
This latter , an immense gulf , stretches far up into the land , and forms two great bays at its meridional extremity ; to the east is the bay of Arkhanghelesk ; and on the west of this latter , separated from it by a narrow slip of land , lies the gulf of Onega , whose mouth is barred by an archipelago of from thirty to forty isles . The largest of them , whose circumference is about forty leagues , bears the name
of Solovelski-Ostrof , and is famous for the monastery of the same name , the largest in the north of Russia , and lying some sixty leagues distant from Arkhangelsk . A considerable borough is built round this , whose inhabitants principally occupy themselves in fishing and preparing the purest isinglass , and also in accommodating the numerous pilgrims who visit the place ; chiefly in tho summer , however , when superstition has thus withdrawn them from their short time of harvest . The borough , containing several streets , VOTi . it . m