Czarina And The Woman Question

The influence of the Russian empresj is strongly feit in the sphere of intellectual progresa. She has manifested great interest in the growth of the woman movement, and in court circles this subject is one that engrosses much attention. It is related that a meeting of feminists was recently about to be held in the capital, and that the empress was anxious to obtain fttller inforraation about me precise aims ot advanced Russian women than she was likely to get frora the St. Petersburg press. The ladies of the court, as well as the czar himself, were questioned on the subject, but at that time their knowledge of the matter was not very extensive. The empress therefore dispatched one of her secretarie? to the meeting, with orders to take a ful] report of the proceedings. This she has also done on every similar occasion subsequently, so there is every appearanee that the court will now be kept well In toucb with the aspirations oí the pioneers of feminism in Russia.