Colonel V. A. Pashkov and the Late Nineteenth-Century Protestant Movement in Russia, Jan M. Surer, 1999

Discount Bank to sell or transfer railway shares and bonds. 53 so, but it is His will[.;] therefore it is right." 22 In 1888 his letters to his son in St. Petersburg and to Owen discuss their straitened finances. A loan might be required to pay salaries, Pashkov wrote to his son in February. 23 Mr. Owen telegraphed in May of that year that 4,000 rubles could be remitted to Pashkov's Petersburg account. Pashkov had been expecting over 100,000 rubles on the basis of an earlier estimate and replied: Is it really possible that I can reckon upon nothing more than those 4000 just now when money is needed especially on account Alick's going to be married! How does it come to that, I cannot understand; all these estates which have always given their income even in bad years regularly not being able to furnish me with more than such a sum[;] it is quite incredible....I cannot go on selling what had been put aside in order to keep my family abroad, and raising money at the discount Bank to pay expenses at Petersburg.] 24 Although the prospects in this instance proved better than had been feared, there was a general trend of decreasing income. Bad harvests were among the reasons for this dwindling income. 25 In late spring Alick was to proceed with the sale of their St. Petersburg house. Although it was "pitiful" to part with their home, it was an opportunity to realize the capital from it. A power of attorney for the sale of the house had PP 2/1/C/28. See also a letter to Natascha (Nathalie Kruse), 1/13 February 1888, PP 2/l/d/190; Jones and Muckle, p. 76. 23 PP 2/l/d/104. 24 Letter to Mr. Owen, 4/16 May 1888, PP 2/l/d/128. 25 Letter from the Comptons, English missionaries in France, to Pashkov, PP 2/7/24, in which they express their surprise that the bad harvests [sometime in the 1880's] should have affected Pashkov. 54 been drafted in Paris in early January of 1888. The requested price was 330,000 rubles. 26 Relations with the peasants The philanthropy Pashkov undertook in St. Petersburg was extended to his provincial estates. One newspaper account described him as an active, humane, and exemplary ( primernyi ) owner, whose employees were so well furnished that it was impossible to wish for a better proprietor. 27 Another claimed that he concerned himself with' his former peasants even now to such an extent that any visit from him was a "joyous event" for them. 28 Among the reasons for these sentiments were the schools he built for the peasant children on his lands. One of these, in the village of Matcherka in the Morshanskii district of Tambov province, was held up as a model for the zemstvo schools: its teacher received a better salary; the schoolroom was bright, spacious, and excellently furnished; and a room was provided for overnight stays for children who came from far away. 29 At Krekshino and Vetoshkino, and perhaps on other 26 Conditions for sale of the h