They received influence from other countries and contributed their share to the universal civilization like citizens of the world, without insisting that the world should, therefore, become Germanized." Czarism had committed atrocities.

Tchernoff knew that by experience, and did not need the Germans to assure him of it.

But all the illustrious classes of Russia were enemies of that tyranny and were protesting against it.

Where in Germany were the intellectual enemies of Prussian Czarism?
They were either holding their peace, or breaking forth into adulation of the anointed of the Lord--a musician and comedian like Nero, of a sharp and superficial intelligence, who believed that by merely skimming through anything he knew it all.

Eager to strike a spectacular pose in history, he had finally afflicted the world with the greatest of calamities.
"Why must the tyranny that weighs upon my country necessarily be Russian?
The worst Czars were imitators of Prussia.