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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Feofar-Khan, or whether he was endeavoring to foment a
revolt in the government of Nijni-Novgorod, which at this
time of year contained a population of such diverse ele-
ments. Perhaps among the Persians, Armenians, or Kal-
mucks, who flocked to the great market, he had agents,
instructed to provoke a rising in the interior. All this was
possible, especially in such a country as Russia. In fact,
this vast empire, 4,000,000 square miles in extent, does
not possess the homogeneousness of the states of Western
Europe. The Russian territory in Europe and Asia
contains more than seventy millions of inhabitants. In
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