The Russian territory in Europe and Asia contains more than seventy millions of inhabitants.
In it thirty different languages are spoken.

The Sclavonian race predominates, no doubt, but there are besides Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, Courlanders.

Add to these, Finns, Laplanders, Esthonians, several other northern tribes with unpronounceable names, the Permiaks, the Germans, the Greeks, the Tartars, the Caucasian tribes, the Mongol, Kalmuck, Samoid, Kamtschatkan, and Aleutian hordes, and one may understand that the unity of so vast a state must be difficult to maintain, and that it could only be the work of time, aided by the wisdom of many successive rulers.
Be that as it may, Ivan Ogareff had hitherto managed to escape all search, and very probably he might have rejoined the Tartar army.

But at every station where the train stopped, inspectors came forward who scrutinized the travelers and subjected them all to a minute examination, as by order of the superintendent of police, these officials were seeking Ivan Ogareff.

The government, in fact, believed it to be certain that the traitor had not yet been able to quit European Russia.