Residents of Nizhny Novgorod and Events in South Africa

Nizhny Novgorod residents, like all of Russia, were stirred by the events in southern Africa in the 1900s. England, the "mistress of the seas," had attacked the Dutch colony of Transvaal. The Dutch Boers resisted desperately — a dwarf fighting a giant! Nizhny Novgorod residents sympathized with the weaker side. Outrage against the English swept through all strata of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate's population — Nizhny Novgorod residents aided the Boers however they could, that is, with money and food parcels.