Note 53 — Chapter 27 The Provincial Government—I am under my own Supervision—The Duhobors and Paul—The Paternal Rule of the Landowners—Count Araktcheyev and the Military Settlements—A Ferocious Investigation—Retirement

Araktcheyev was a pitiful coward, as Count Toll tells us in his memoirs, and the Secretary of State Martchenko in a little story of the Fourteenth of December published in the Polar Star. I have heard that he was in hiding during the Staraya Russa rising, and was in deadly terror of Reihel the general of Engineers.