Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Germans in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Germans in Russia.

There are nearly 2.000,000 of Ger-HMitJS-Fesiding..ln-tfieCzar's-iloin in i o n s? Their condition during the^ reign of Alexander 111. was anything, but enviable. Ilis Pan-Slavic policy purposed their complete Russification and the suppression of all German institutions, privileges and religious worship. The Teutonic element of the Baltic

provinces, which by_gducation and wealth preponderated in commercial and political relations, with sorrow and resentment awaited its doom. Schools and academies where for centuries only German had been the language of instruction were Russifieds Preaching in the tongue of the Fatherland was prohibited, er-at least more or less restricted. Dorpat, tile famous German university, received Russian professors who were not fit to teach in any language, and a simular status threatened the colleges.