The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-05-08
The GREAT SIBERIAN FORESTS
GLOOMY woods for Hundred. or Mue,-s,.
berlan Villages and Their IphpbJtnn,,


| berian Villages and Their Inhnbitnn,.
| ST. PETERSBURG. April 25.-The famine IN
Russia 80 graphically described by tho clever
young correspondents. who personally and M.
without risks visited tho rcnote stricken dis.
| tricts during the late winter and early sp!inr.
has now reached such degree of intensity
| that many OF the more desperate victims
voluntarily commit crimes that will call forth
an order Of arrest and condemnation 10 hard
| labor In Siberia. They calculate that there Mt
| least there will he food and dnly rattSos
| however coarse and meaerc. To them siberia
| has long been only tho mines. tho long work.
ing hours in eternal night. priyations. conuc.
ment. torturcs to be silently borne under III,
watchful eye OF Russian Ia skmastcrs: AMI yrt
such is their present distress that It has be.
| come SOFT Of promised Land of ,vnty
In one respect. howevnt. they are iU"itnrl in
their new View of TIL, country. siberia l. NOT
| wholly tho lnnd Of pcnal settlements. of bar.
| barous captivity and sv"vtulc. ItisH'so ,l,o
country of immense forests. Of buunllcss
tracts OF wild. frcc life. OF wooicl cSrares
| compared with which the forests ot tho Gov.
ernmcnts Of Moscow and Nladimrnrn mr,s
copscs. although 1t may take n traveller ,wca.
ty-four hours to ridc through thom.
The Siberian forest begins In reality beyond
Tomsk. though mt first it offers to tho cvo
| much tho same vcgctntion. tho meag gre bruc.us
and nspens sparsclv dotted with thin r.ncs,
and tho scrnggy nndcrbrush of .hr lesser
woods. 1t INST hc same marshy. soldru So,
and the open spaces are iikcwiso intcrscci"a
by occasional cat fields preceding a ~ i,c,# "A,
hamlet. till region Ia reached were
cultivation apparently completely ceases.
and whero the dreary moaotuny OF uu-
interesting brash and coppics l. diversified
by no vesti;.o Of labor or hautn, on That
ott,l,n xtyy; 1. L., -.
hidden from the outward world il tito depths
OF the woodlands and therefore ignored Tho
impression upon tho stranger j. Quo OF un.
speaknblc melancholy caused by the scnso IL
immonsity. Tor 1t soon becomes Impossible 10
fancy that tho forest will ever end; 1t Is limit
less. and yet conveys the idea OF u prison.
Further on hetw OH Mnrinsk and Atchiusy--
tho great Siberian highway these chara"trr-
istics arc slightly modiiel and improved; III,
colorins becomes richer and more intense:
the trees HIT themselves In more ,icd IN lis.
and acquire size and breadth: through open
ings In the moro luxurious i,iag, glimpse are
ut times obtanable OF the distant eastern Sine
rian range vaguely silhouettei OH the deep, cold
blue Of the horizon. The road now meGnders
through valleys and .orges between steep ac-
clivitics thickly wooded. but it is. however
only near krasniark that the impressive nm
unuttcrable majesty. power. and stately gloom
ofthe "taga is lu!t in all it's desolate grandeur.
There it becomes magnificent and strange
h.,hnl in n,n.n,j t,ri,;,,ht. ir,,,nn,,tr"hIa
tb;ct,ts VITA, ,,.,,,,,a n.I .iaia, n, a.,,,,
cnIL .hnanus II s..o,,,,,a t., ~, ,tLa,I..,"
ohs.u,;.v ,nr t,ors,,,, ~ tn.. ,I,a,.n.
so,. hnndrod -, ,h,,, n,,, h., ,,,,.,,s ,,,.,,,,s
n timo uithout so,;r,,. civ ,i. h,n,.u ,ro.,n,.,.
M hmm f,nt he n,ar ,.',,.., ra,aI -, ,I.,.nn
fra If ths tni,, .rh, or,,r. o,.tars Ih. ,I,,.,,
nires n,s rnr.I,. r.,,ioy.I L,, ,h, i,,,,or
branchos of tho nsn.n treo. mr. now, md thar
nv tbe ;.ed hcrri.s -, tho will ,,,.rrv. ,nnro
rarslv st;,I tv IN. vbi,o h,,,,n -, sn,,n utrnn,,
lacking INN lilo nm, n, Ian, ;r,,rv,is ,
noisnless stream cn,rs,u u,dn, ina oyorn,n,
inc hrnnchcs Without mn oxn.,i.ncoJ ,niu.
md . good hors, q wn,id ~, g,n,h.,.i, ,,,,,
a,tromo to ya,turo ovor u,o,, ,h, trn;Ie ,,d
roads which ,,. III, moot fr,,rar,,L md ,L,.
tett.rt,own. M str,nys.,,,,,I h,, ,,,. n,.s.i
,d;i,v 1nd h;s w,v IN ,bos, mys,o,ionst,n,, J.-
lndinvI.hvri,ths. for d,rs No u,und 10 L.,,.I.
''s , s' ioi ""' Nv swan" &c ae''u'
10 song OF bird or hurried trunlnl!ng OF nni-
NAL; daylight itself is changed and yelled and
when it ceases the clear northern night drops
chill weird wniteh"ss over tho lmmohio
trunks and motonless branches. while 1t
saems IN evol.a auI,tIa na,atratir. ,rJ or,
seenis oe'oNe SUITE. peh''ra''hs' anu ar"-
matte perfumes from the cednrs and the pines
nour that th. tai... scnd. forth invuhri.
n"uf :ns. Inc '", S,, echus 'ol.n uusuof'-
GUS signs that TALL on the startled cur
like mournful wall nothing else
con giva nm idoa NJ ,h,s roc,ur,L
awakening OF the Siberian forest. which never
changes to gladness But even the lreariness
ofthese is asnoth;nr comnnrcd with,L,
ol'neee so'nus 10 "1l".ns 'o"'puleo VIII" ''
terror OF n storm suddenly breaking over it:
might quail, for If scans thrn ma II IN. him.
erto dumb and forsaken depths were alive
with wild and fierce beasts. roaring and howl
ing IN search u, some prey 10 ue'our. al sa'h
times. like the famine stricken peasant OF far
of RUSSIA, ths traveller wonders whctherths
shau.r ~ sn,,o ..,,,.orr.n.,n min, ,.aro,u-
S"ene' W so''' y" o''",'oan n'''' "flo h'1
preferable to the la'eiai freedom o: tho team
nest-tosscd t,i,,u.
The siberian forest has it, douizcns and Wis.
itors: they are til" hardy hunters who know
.''"' '"os, nv ,hn r.,n,,nr ,r nu
some pa,'s ,'."' -, ~" '.'"''' a"u,"'ns
,ect ~ ti,.ir putirrt pursuit. They track than,