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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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speaking French, dancing prettily, nucleus of a true
frontier aristocracy of refinement. They had been
educated at Orenburg in Siberia, had never seen
the Moscow-Petersburg form of Russian society, and
would probably marry officers or civilians who like-
wise know nothing of European Russia.
So it was in far Kashgar. The old retiring
Consul-General had spent a lifetime in Asia—and
now, the end of labour drawing near, he had decided
to die, not in one of the great towns of the West,
but in Tashkent, in the very heart of Russian Turk-
estan. In Kashgar, too, were several civilians who
had never been west of the Ural Mountains. It has
been impossible to subject those frontier folk to
Moscow discipline. True, there is always one re-
servation due to the very essence of the Russian
system, and which sharply marks off any Russian
from any American, that is, he rarely talks politics
with strangers; never, at least, any radical politics.
He might—though this is not on my part experi-
mental knowledge—question the wisdom of the pro-
tection policy of his Government, or any such similar
policy, but the form of his government seems to be
adopted as a necessary background to life—as a
"form of thought." Either a loyalty, almost uni-
versal, or a fear, equally universal (the former, I
think), prevents the average Russian mind from
entering this region, mysterious to him, familiar
and vital to nearly all Europeans and Americans.
Once outside this reservation, these frontiersmen in
Asia show much of the self-reliance, the mental
temerity which characterise our own frontier, or any
other frontier occupied by strong men.
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