Chapter 17

Abramoff, priestoff,159,171Agent provocateur,223,404Agrarian program of Duma,20Akatui, mines,156Aladin, Alexis,334-335Alexander II,3Alexander III, story of,299Alexanderburg,140Alikhanoff, General,90;in Kutais,96;interview with,99,102-114;description of,101;life of,101;methods of,102;death of,111American sewing-machines,99Amnesty, Duma’s demand for,194,200Andronnikov, Prince,25;embarrassment of,32,90Anipko, Duma deputy, taken at Kronstadt,252Appanage lands grant,337Ararat, Mt.,87Armenians,77-84;church,78,80;merchant in Kutais,100;massacres,83Arrest, in Saratoff,137;reasons for,141-142;other arrests,153Assassination, theory of,391Babaieff,83Baku,77-78,84Bausk,23Beaulieu, Leroy,462,482Belentzoff,403Berlin,3;police records,4;departure from,5Bezsonoff, Major-general,244Bielostok, massacre,237;arrival in,237-238“Black Hundreds,”241,246-247,468;headquarters in Odessa,473;policy of,474;aim,475,476“Bloody” Sunday,xviiiBrigand, Ingoosh, meeting with,37;his bride,45Bryan, William Jennings, on First Duma,205Bund, the,281Constitution,xviiiCorruption, official and in Red Cross,xxCircassian uniform,27Cossacks, how regarded by officials,32;value from military point of view,33;reasons for loyalty to Czar,33;how regarded by Jews and peasants,34;origin and history of,35-37;services rendered to foes of Russia in olden times,35;first stanitza,47,48;Mountain Cossacks,49-53;jigitoffka,53-58;military training of,59;Don Cossacks,60;agricultural systems,63;physique of,64;Cossack honor,65;promise for future development,69;patrol in Kutais,95;outrages,119;nagaika,331Circassian customs,39,41Caspian Sea, first view of,76-77Czar, speeches of, confiscated,122;manifesto of October, 1905,177,181,483;and Duma,178,179;and special laws,182;at Winter Palace,184;nervousness of,187;speech of,191-192;effect of speech,192-194;attitude toward Constitutionalism,205;residence of,209;rewards soldier for shooting girl,263;arch assassin of Russia,264Colonization,124Corday, Charlotte, of Russia,155Council of Empire,181Constitutional Democrats,182,202;and peasants,288Conspirative meeting in Kronstadt,207Comisaroff, Count,247;Captain,510,512Christian Socialists,283Cheliabinsk,360Church holidays,441Crimea, the,465Crown speech, Duma’s reply to,502-507Daghestan,84Despotism, only possible justification of, xixDnieper Cossacks,35,36Dolgorukoff, Prince,195Don Cossacks,35,36Duma, village, in Saratoff,135Duma, imperial,11;attitude of peasants toward,135;first convocation by Czar’s manifesto,177;Czar and,178;assembling of,183;make-up of,195;congratulatory telegrams to,195;unanimity of,195;order in,200;work of,201;dissolution,202;plot upon,407-409Durnovo, Minister,182,247Dutch proverb,10Empress, at Winter Palace,187Empress, Dowager,187Exceptional laws,181Famine, fund scandal,xx;extent of,xx;Simbirsk,337;preventable,340;in Samara,345;frauds,345;causes of,346;terrible scenes of starvation and ravages of disease,348;inadequate relief,351;a relief station,352;peasant girls sold into bondage because of,356Flying bands,398Fox, the, police spy,219Freedom, forty days’,177Fundamental laws,181Galitzin, Prince,78Gapon, Father,15,183Georgia, capital of,87;king of,87;pacification of,102Gomel pogrom,245Gorky, song of,136Gorymekiu, Premier,182Green, Victor,252;assassination of,257Hague, The, Peace Conference resolutions,96,100Hertzenstein, Professor, assassinated,248-251Hughes, Arthur,433,438Hughes, John,436Ingoosh brigand,38Insurrection, plans for,208Ivan, the courier,93,94,96Jablonsky, order of,4Jacquerie, aim of,54Jews, governor-general of Terek’s opinion of,30;laws against,182;massacres,242;in Poland,281;in terrorist organization,281;Odessa,466;total number in Russia,466;restriction of,467;policy of persecution of,467,471;“Jew-baiting” pamphlet,472Kovalevsky, Maxime,xxiv;newspaper of,227Kropotkin, Peter, “Russian Literature,”5Kurland,20Kabardine villages,38Kazbek,42Kur, river,90Kutais, town of,90;arrival in,95;terror in,96,114-115;description of,102;population of,102Kronstadt,209;town of,210;conspirative meeting in,216-219;escape from,221-222;under ominous quiet,227;garrison,229;uprising,231;failure of mutiny,232;effect of mutiny,235Karass, General,245Kostroma,312; peasants,313-319Kazan, province,328Konoplannikova, Zinaida,392Karaites, the,465La Grave, Cave,23Liski,144Loris-Melikoff, Dr.,xxiv,77Lopuchin’s letter to Stolypin on police participation of massacres,508-515Luboshitz, Nahum,162,164Luchenovsky, Lieutenant-governor,156;assassination of,159;successor of,174Mamaieff, execution of,397Marseillaise,136,217,219,224Martial law in Kutais,96Massacres, Caucasian testimony,497-501Maximalists,391,398-399;plots,407;details of an “expropriation,”412-416Medhurst, Consul,433-436Military organization,207Miliukoff, Professor Paul, characterization of present situation by,xxi,xxiv;newspaper of,227;and Prof. Hertzenstein,251Miners, coal,449-456;shiftlessness,453-454Mines, coal,449Min, General,331,392-393Mordwa,140Moscow insurrection,200;arrest in,311Mouromseff, President,195Nakashidze, Prince,80,83Nakhitchevan,102Nastasia,410-411,480National Democratic Party of Poland,282Nationalist Party of Poland,281-282New Russia Company,434,437Nijni-Novgorod,319-321;the Fair,321-328Noutt,20Novo-Pebalge,20Nucha,84Odessa,466;a dramatic leave-taking of,478Orienbaum,221,228,229Orloff, General, in Baltic provinces,20Ossetine villages,38,45Ostiaks,362Ouktomsky, Prince,328-331Palkine’s restaurant, incident in,15Pebalga,23Plehve, von,77Persia,84Pillage in Kutais,100Peasants, morality of,132;importance of,287;in Duma,288;psychology,288;awaking,291,310Pesky,136,140Prison, Saratoff,149Pasha,207,210;in disguise,212;speech to soldiers and sailors,217-218;“taken,”258Paul,210;capture of,232Propaganda in army,209Pogrom, Bielostok,237;Kieff,242-245;Gomel,245;Odessa,245;governmental responsibility for,424-508Poland, Russian,267;Russian misrule in,268;school children in,268;young men of,271;Russian police in,271;parties of,281-284Progressive Democratic Party of Poland,282Polish Party Socialist,283-285Polish revolution,285Pietuchow, Captain, report on Siedlce,516-524Protopopow, Staff Captain,516Peasant, needs,293;characteristics,297,309;religion,298;drink among,299;indolence,304;scarcity of land,305;democracy of,306;attitude toward Viborg manifesto,317,331Raffalsky, Vice-governor,243Reaction,226-227Repression, the,3Red Cross, revolutionary,361,365Reval, uprising of,226;reported fighting in,228Revolution, Russian, importance and meaning of,xvii;number of victims,xxi;compared to French, English, and Italian,xxii;aspect of beginning, 1906,3Romanoffs, rise of,312-313Rottkopf, torture of,252-257Route Militaire de Georgie,42Stolypin, Premier, and field courts,xxii,264,489,490;attempt upon,331,409;characterization of,489;governor of Saratoff,153;a champion of autocracy,489St. Petersburg, incident in theater,10Sipolena,20Saukin,20Schiff, General,20Schouvoleff, Count,26Scherematiev, Count,26Saratoff, journey to,122;departure from,122-123;description of province,123;landlords of,123-124;entrée to, under arrest,148Serfdom abolished,124Students in famine districts,125Search party in Tsaritzin,126-129Syphilis,132Spiradonova, Marie,155;League,156;story of,156-160;torture of,160;interview with,162-170;trial of,172;speech in court,173;letters from,173-176;mother of,174-175Semenovsky Regiment,200Sveaborg,226;mutiny,228Sebastopol, rising of,226Scallon, governor-general of Poland,257Semonova shot in prison,259-263Simbirsk, province,334;illiteracy in,355;peasants,335-340Samara, province,341;crop failure,342;famine in,345;arrest in,357-359Siberia, first town visited in,361;sketch of,365-366;system of exile,367;a working-man’s exile,368;cost of living in,368-369;hardships of exile,369;a fair propagandist,374,382,385;politics in,375;neglect of exiles,376;a group of intellectuals,379;prevalence of disease,380-382Social Democrats,390Social Revolutionists,390Sokolow, capture of,393-394Sasha,416;exploits of,417;escape from St. Petersburg,418-423,430,432Siedlce,516-524Timirassiroff, Minister, interview with,18;views on Witte,18-19Tirsen,20Terskoi-Koubansky Cossack regiment,25Terek, governor-general of,30;presentation to and interview with,29-37;vanity,31“Times,” London, expelled correspondent of,30Terek, province of,48Tartars versus Armenians,78-84Tiflis, first view of,87;stay in,88-90;departure from,93-94;feuds in,87;demolished quarters of,89;a terrible incident,389Tsaritzin, arrival in,24;peasant,129,140Tamboff, province,155;prison,156Terrorist,164Tauride Palace,194Throne Speech,191-192;Duma’s reply to,200,502-507Terrorism, governmental,237,263,264;theory of,258;explanation of and justification for,388-392Trepoff and massacres,241,248,514,515Turau, Senator, report on pogroms,242Tyumen,361,362Tobolsk,373-374Tolstoi, visit to,456;his American friends,460;his interpretation of present situation in Russia,461;on socialism,462;influence on Russians,464;prophecy of,493Tichanowsky, Colonel,484,516,517-524Ufa,360“Underground” system,362Urusoff, Prince,201;speech in Duma,246-247Vladikavkas,25;hotel accommodations in,26;midnight awakening in,28-29;departure from,42;return to,73Volga Cossacks,35,37Viborg manifesto,205;effect upon peasants,317Vilna,240;police terrorism in,241,511Vorobieff, Dr., assassinated,251Vladimeroff, report on Warsaw tortures,252-257Vassiliev, Professor, visit to,332-334Vologda,386Vyatka,386Venediktoff, execution of,397“Viedomosti,” Moscow, extract from,485Wirballen,6,9Witte,18,178;end of premiership,282;and massacres,245,509,514Wender,20Winter Palace, meeting of Duma in,183-194Warsaw,265;panic of Jews,265-266;martial law in,267;Russian administration, massacre of police in,272;poverty of,272-273;prostitutes,274;terrors,275;riots,276;strike of school children,276Workmen, Russian,440;wages of,442,525-526;standard of living,526-528;compared to American workmen,442;homes of,445;morality,446;characteristics,447;physically compared with American and English workmen,447-448Xanugievitch, Governor,160;dinner with,161-162Yasnaya Poliana,456,459Yekaterinburg,360,361Yusofka,433;departure from,455Zaporovians (Cossacks),36Zhdanov, Cossack officer,159,171


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