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The dawn in Russia

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Akinoff, Minister of Justice, 242

Aladin, M., and peasant deputies, 315

Alexander III., system of Russification, 270

Alexandrovsky ironworks, 40;

government ways of industry, 41

Aliens Act, 227

Anarchists, message from, 56;

no paper in Russia, 73;

use of word by Government, 299

Anikin, member of Duma, 339

Annensky, President of Economic Society’s Club, 318

Army, increased pay, 175;

part in national tragedy, 303

Assassination of, Sipiaguine, 2;

Bobrikoff, 6;

Plehve, 6;

Grand Duke Sergius, 13;

Sakharoff, 77;

Voiloshnikoff, 178;

Jeoltanowski, 314

Baku, race feuds at, 16;

journey to, stopped by strike, 129–130

Baltic Provinces, Home Rule for, 74;

revolt in, 78;

shooting, hanging and flogging in, 263–281;

Governor-General accused of mildness, 265;

revolutionary reprisals, 279–280

Barashoff, chairman at Salt Town meeting, 52

Bauman, funeral of, 97

Bielenstein, Pastor, sufferings of, 274–275

Bireleff, Minister of Marine, 242

“Black Hundred,” 21, 33;

incited to murder, 121;

plunder Kieff, 208–209

“Bloody Sunday,” 11, 12;

honour to victims of, 52;

anniversary of, 228–232

Bobrikoff assassinated, 6

Bombardment, of private houses, 139, 140, 159, 162, 164, 176;

of factories, 184–189

Buliguine, Minister of Interior, 14

“Bund,” Jewish, 225, 284;

methods and aims of, 298

Carlyle, on Russia, 54;

on Livonia, 267

Caucasus, Home Rule for the, 74;

fighting in the, 78, 129

Clementz, Professor, 244

Congress, of Peasants at Moscow, 49;

of Constitutional Democrats in St. Petersburg, 313

Constitutional Democrats, 224;

programme in Odessa, 225;

meetings of, in St. Petersburg, 244–247;

policy of, 245;

leaders of, 246–247;

elections of, 311–312;

meeting broken up, 317–318

Cossacks, taunted in streets, 35;

brutal methods of, 38–40, 102, 134–135;

protect Heavenly Powers, 125;

employed with Semenoffsky Guards, 186;

connive at plunder, 208–209;

terror of, 277;

to guard Winter Palace, 319

Council of Empire, 313, 321, 329–332

Cross (Kresty) Prison, 238;

demonstrations from, 327

Courland, revolt in, 78

Davidoff, murder of, 228

Democrats, (see Constitutional), 311;

National, 293, 295;

Progressive, 296

Diedulin, General, Chief of Police, 243

Dubasoff, Admiral, as butcher, 72;

Governor-General of Moscow, 122;

special prayers for, 124;

speech to patriots, 127;

fires on Red Cross, 15;

decrees business to be resumed, 180;

orders boys and girls to be flogged, 194–195;

attempted assassination of, 313

Duma, promised for January, 1906, 15–16;

Zemstvo’s attitude towards, 16;

Constitutionalists’ attitude towards, 245;

preparations for, 224;

reactionary designs on, 245–246;

Poland under, 287;

represented in, 294;

how elected, 303, 306;

date fixed, 310, 313;

elections for, 310, 311, 312;

candidates imprisoned, 311;

Durnovo’s attitude towards, 313;

Government’s precautions about, 316, 317–319;

opening of, 320;

first week of, 332–340

Durnovo, assistant Minister of Interior, 21, 57;

petition to, 103;

confirmed Minister of Interior, 242;

mean tactics of, 313;

resigns, and is rewarded, 313;

in Council of Empire, 318

England, quoted in support of tyranny, 285

English, manufacturers, 142, 182;

hide in cellars, 178;

under fire, 182–189;

Consulates attacked by troops, 209–210;

opinion on Russian revolution, 239

Ermoleff, police officer murders Dr. Vorobieff, 187

Esthonia, revolt in, 78;

prisoners shot in, 238

Fiedler, leader of revolutionists, 138;

house bombarded, 139;

death of, 140

Finance, 306;

Budget of 1906..., 309;

fresh loans and increased taxation, 312

Finland, liberties restored, 21;

Home Rule for, 74;

crossing Gulf of, 248–249;

concessions to, 286;

troops sent into, and withdrawn, 311

Flogging, abolished nominally, 6;

“as before,” 34, 41, 243;

of peasants, 91;

of boys, 193;

of young men and girls, 194–195;

in Livonia, 263–264, 278–279

Free Economic Society, hall in St. Petersburg, 25, 79, 315, 317–318

Fundamental laws, altered to frustrate Duma, 314–315;

criticized, 315;

resolution against, 316;

effect of, 319

Gapon, Father, founds Russian Workmen’s Union, 9–10;

appeals to Tsar, 11–12;

fails to attend meeting, 51–53;

amnesty demanded for, 55;

in hiding, 57;

described, 57–58;

escape of, 59;

reported dead, 313

Georgians, reported independence of, 129

German landowners, 270–274;

pastors, 274–276

Germany, dislike of, 295

Goethe, on the birth of a new age, 327

Golitzin, 331

Goremykin, new Premier, 313, 315, 331.

See Ministers.

Gorky, Maxim, edits New Life, 65–66;

explains revolution, 115–116;

his play, The Children of the Sun, performed, 116, 117;

his heroes, 118;

sombreness of, 269

Government, tactics of, 138, 167, 168, 301–306;

methods of business and of warfare, 231;

methods of justice, 233–234;

position of, 301-302;

loans to, 306, 310, 312

Gramen, shot for making bombs, 300

“Houses of Inquiry,” 233–236

Ignatieff, 331

“Intelligence,” The, definition of party, 9;

despised by Socialists, 297

Isvolsky, Minister at Danish Court, recalled, 315

Ivan the Cruel, 126

Japan, War with, 2, 3, 4;

peace with, 18;

effect of war on Poland, 288–289

Jeoltanowski, General, assassinated 314

Jews, massacre of, 3;

newspapers of, 68;

“Black Hundred,” to murder, 121;

arrested at Kieff, 210;

laws against, 225–227;

“Bund,” 225, 284, 298;

in Warsaw, 294;

classed as Anarchists, 299

Jewesses, courage of, 300

Journalists, beaten by soldiers, 188;

shot in batches, 238;

reactionary chorus of, 304, 306

Kaufman, Minister of Education, 315

Kempski, Edmund, tortured, 311

Khroustoloff, president of Strike Committee, 27, 28;

arrested, 77;

in prison, 237

Kieff, journey to, 203;

description of, 203–208;

Jews arrested at, 210;

revolutionists shot, 210;

prison fever, 210–211;

meeting at, 211;

wealth of, 211

Kishineff, massacre of Jews at, 3

Kokovtsoff, negotiates loans, 202, 312

Königsberg, case, 5

“Koulak,” a village usurer, 87

Kremlin, floating in blood, 72;

by moonlight, 119

Krasnaya (Red Square), prayer meeting in, 123

Krivoy Rog, trade with Siberia, 289

Kronstadt, visit to, 249;

Father John of, 249–255;

mutiny at, 303

Kropotkin, Prince, writer on Russian struggle for freedom, 2;

quoted by Tolstoy, 93;

quoted, 103

“Kursistki,” 257

Lavra, at Kieff, 204

Letts, revolt of, 78;

butchery of, 262–281;

language, music, and literature of, 267;

homes of, 268–269;

Russification of, 270;

drive out landowners, 270–273;

strange union with Germans, 273–274;

hiding from Cossacks, 277;

sentenced by telephone, 278

Livonia, revolt in, 78;

“Bloody Assize” in, 262–280

Lodz, trade of, 288

Manifestoes (Imperial), promising revision of laws, 7, 8;

appealing to people, 13;

promising Duma, 15;

announcing peace with Japan, 18;

promising personal freedom and constitution (Manifesto of Oct. 30th), 19, 20, 120;

restoring ancient liberties of Finland, 21;

withdrawing promised reforms, 22;

reducing peasants’ payments for land, 22;

peasants’ opinion of, 90;

making strikes a capital offence, 103;

promising army reforms, 201;

reorganizing old Council and limiting the power of Duma, 310;

worthlessness of, 243

Manifestoes (Revolutionary), on Government finance, 78;

accepting Government’s challenge, 80;

of strike committee to St. Petersburg citizens, 229

Manifesto of Oct. 30th violated, 310, 315, 316

Manioukoff, Rector of Moscow University, 108

Martial law, in Poland, 22;

in Moscow, 153–154;

at Kieff, 203;

in St. Petersburg, 317

“Marseillaise,” Russian, 30, 35

Massacres, at Kishineff, 3;

before Winter Palace, 12;

in streets of Warsaw, 13, 299–300;

at Toula, 81;

at Odessa, 216–220;

in Livonia, 262–281

“Maxim,” socialist leader, 272

Meetings, to discuss eight hours’ day, 28;

to protest against capital punishment, 31;

of Poles to demand overthrow of absolutism, 35;

at Salt Town, 50–57;

interest in, 62–63;

collections at, 104;

of National Democrats in Warsaw, 293–294;

of Economical Society, dispersed by police, 315, 317–318

Miliukoff, historian of freedom, 2;

editor of Zhisn (Life), 111;

leader of Constitutionalists, 246–247;

great speech by, 315

Min, Colonel, as slaughterman, 183–186

Ministers, Committee of, 241–242

Ministers (New), 313, 315

Minsky, poet and editor, 66

Mirski, Prince Sviatopolk, Minister of Interior and reformer, 6

Mischenko expected with 7000 Cossacks, 175

Molva (The Russ), 68;

publishes horrors, 311;

appeals to France, and is suppressed, 312

Moscow, centre of revolution, 80;

description of, 104, 107;

strikes in, 101–104;

Trade Unions in, 105–107;

University closed, 108;

Tsar’s portrait removed at meet-in, 109;

“liberty tempered by assassination” in, 118, 122;

terror in, 121;

fortified, 122;

prayer meeting in Red Square, 123;

stampede of patriots in, 128;

revolutionary days in, 129–197;

light and water cut off, 132;

attempt to win over troops, 134;

shops closed, 135;

garrison distrusted, 136;

bombardment of houses, 139–140;

English factories near, 142–143;

barricades and street-fighting, 145–168, 174;

girls shot down, 149, 150;

Zemstvo organizes ambulance, 150;

aid to the wounded, 152, 175;

Sharpshooters in bell-tower, 153, 161;

“a minor state of siege,” 154;

Christmas Eve rumours, 155;

explosion in gun-shop, 156;

victims, old and young, 160;

officer deprived of sword, 169;

new barricades, 174;

panic, 175;

official estimate of killed and wounded in, 176;

execution in street of, 177;

after bombardment, 179;

estimate of damage in, 181;

struggle for freedom in Presna district, 182–189;

horrors of suppression, 188–195, 240;

Christmas celebration in, 195–197;

lesson of, 203;

prisoners shot in batches, 238;

bank robbed, 311

Mutiny, at Toula, 2;

Odessa, 14, 302;

Baku, 16;

Kronstadt, 22, 302;

Sevastopol, 49, 302, 310;

Kieff, 211

Neidhart, Governor-General in Odessa, 216

Nemeschaeff, Minister of Communications, 241

Newspapers, revolutionary, 64–69, 311, 312;

reactionary, 69–70;

satiric, 71–73;

artistic merit of, 71;

wholesale suppression of, 80, 215, 311;

Russian News joins Progressive party, 104, 111;

unpopularity of Moscow News, 106

“Noblemen’s Assembly,” State Council in, 330

Obolensky, Procurator of Holy Synod, 242

Odessa, rejoices at Manifesto of Oct. 30th, 215;

and buries freedom, 216;

massacres Jews, 216–220;

country near, 217;

Jewish obstinacy and misery, 220–221;

docks burned in, 222;

poverty in, 223;

political parties in, 224;

Jewish “Bund” at, 225;

restrictions on Jews, 226;

electors intimidated, 311

Orloff, General, represses Baltic Provinces, 264–265, 276

Parties of Reform and Revolution, 73–77;

in Odessa, 224;

in Poland, 293–294

Peasants, congress of, 49;

descriptions of, 33;

hardships of, 87;

home of, 88;

charity of, 90;

camping in railway-station, 131;

of Little Russia, 212–214;

in Baltic provinces, 262–281;

in Poland, 289–291;

deputies in St. Petersburg, 315;

Parliamentary Party of, 316;

in Winter Palace, 321–322;

in Duma, 337–339

Petersburg, St., general strike in, 228;

prepared for massacre, 229;

manifesto to citizens of, 229;

wholesale arrests in, 233, 238;

fortress-prison in, 237;

Kresty (Cross) prison in, 238, 326;

Constitutional Democrats in, 244, 315, 318;

revolutionary concert in, 255;

Poles in, 282;

opening of Duma in, 319

Peterhof, Tsar and family at, 316

Petrunkevitch, leader of Zemstvoists, 246;

speech in Duma, 327

Plehve, Minister of Interior, 3;

assassination of, 6;

his policy towards workers, 43

Pleske, Minister of Finance, 3

Pobiedonostzeff, resignation of, 21;

keeper of Russia’s Orthodoxy, 242, 331

Poland, demands Home Rule, 74, 295;

position under Duma, 287;

trade losses in, 288;

strikes in, 289;

price of land, rents, wages, population and education in, 290–291;

Jews in, 294;

Russian garrison in, 292;

Political Parties in, 292–300;

prejudices against Germany in, 295

Poles, dissensions among, 75, 282;

disliked by Little Russians, 206–207;

high official’s opinion of, 283–287;

peasant life among, 288–290;

cruelty of, 291;

“learning to vote,” 294;

number in Duma, 294

Police, activity of, 33, 34;

danger from, 82;

house of secret, 54;

in disguise, 167–168;

execution of chief of secret, 177–178;

Diedulin, chief of, 243;

break up meetings of Constitutionalists, 315, 318

Politicals, treatment of, 233–243;

wholesale massacre of, 240;

in exile, 243;

in Warsaw, 299–300;

rescue of, 312;

amnesty demanded for, 325–327, 339

Potemkin, lover of Catherine II., 327

Potemkin, mutiny on board the, 221

Poverty, in St. Petersburg, 37–48;

in Little Russia, 212–214;

in Odessa, 223

Presna or Presnensky, manufacturing district, 182;

revolution in, 183;

bombardment of and slaughter in, 183–190;

estimates of killed and wounded in, 190–191;

methods of execution in, 191–193

Press, brief freedom of, 64–74.

See Newspapers.

Prison, life of “political” in, 235;

fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, 237;

Kresty (Cross), 238;

greetings to deputies from, 326;

estimate of numbers in, 238

Punch, cartoon blacked out, 34

Redigers, Minister of War, 242

Revolutionists, hesitation among, 136–137;

bombarded, 139–140;

arrested and shot, 141;

numbers estimated, 141–142;

plan of action in Moscow, 145–147, 163;

loot gun-shop, 156–157;

private ambulance of, 158;

sledge-drivers refuse aid to, 159;

deprive officer of sword, 169;

confiscate photographs, 171;

passive bravery of, 172;

last stand of, 174;

call for volunteers, 175;

girl leader of, 183;

tear up railway-line, 183;

slaughter of in Presnensky district, 183–194;

women among, 199, 308;

“dress rehearsal” of, 198;

union among, 199, 308;

propaganda in army of, 200, 298–299;

need of money among, 201;

shot at Kieff, 210;

concert given for, 255–261;

butchered in Baltic provinces, 262–281;

persistence of, 308

Riga, revolt in, 78

Riots, in Moscow, 2, 112;

of students, 7;

in Poland, 13, 14;

in Kieff, Warsaw, and Odessa, 21

Roditcheff, member of Duma, 339

Rostoff regiment, mutiny in, 101;

proves its loyalty, 186

Russians, intelligence of, 69;

home-life of nobility, 85–86;

peasant life of, 87;

democratic qualities of, 256–267;

poverty among, 212–214;

misery of, 307;

persistence of, 308

Sakharoff, Minister of War, assassinated, 77

“Salt Town,” meetings at, 50, 51

Sassoulitch, Vera, as journalist, 67;

last “political” tried by jury, 233

Saratoff, peasant member for, 339

Schlüsselberg, description of road to, 37, 230;

prison turned into mint, 239–240

Schmidt, Lieutenant, leader of Sevastopol mutiny, 49;

sentenced to be hanged, 310;

shot, 311;

body dug up and thrown into sea, 312

Schwanebach, Imperial Comptroller, 315

Semenoffsky Guards, employed in massacres with Cossacks, 186;

distinguished by their zeal, 194;

chosen to guard Winter Palace, 316

Sergius, Grand Duke, assassinated, 13;

place of his death, 124

Sharpshooters in bell-tower of Strastnoi Convent, 153, 161

Shipoff, Minister of Finance, 241, 309

Siberia, still used for exiles, 243;

Polish trade with, 288, 289

Sieczka, Vincentz, tortured, 311

Sipiaguine, Minister of Interior, assassinated, 2

Skallon, Governor-General in Warsaw, tries to seduce revolutionists, 300

Sobolevski, editor of Russian News, 111

Social Democrats, minimum programme of, 3;

unbending attitude of, 4, 59;

organ of, 65;

strength of, 73;

young girls among, 76;

compared with Government, 231;

in Poland, 296–298

Social Revolutionists, 74;

member shoots Sakharoff, 77

Soldiers, return from war with Japan, 97–100, 307;

how treated as reservists, 99–101;

refuse to kill work-people, 2;

mutiny, 101;

propaganda among, 200, 298–299

Sollogub, Governor-General in Baltic provinces, reproached for mildness, 265

Soskice, David, translator and lecturer, 246

Spies, at teachers’ conference, 53;

post and telegraph clerk protest against, 53–54;

use of, 138

Spiridinova, Marie, tortured, outraged, avenged, 311

Stcheglovitoff, Minister of Justice, 315

Stepniak, supporter of Russian freedom, 2, 48

Stishinsky, Minister of Agriculture, 315

Stolypin, Minister of Interior, 315

Strastnoi bell-tower, sharpshooters placed in, 153, 161

Strikes, on railways, 18;

throughout Russia, 19;

in sympathy with Poland, 22;

failure of second general strike, 23;

result in factory villages, 38;

under Russian laws, 43;

as agents of abstinence, 47;

of post and telegraph service, 49, 60, 61, 81, 114;

in St. Petersburgh and Moscow, 101, 103, 132, 314;

fund seized by Government, 104;

on railway, 130;

meeting at Aquarium, dispersed by troops and police, 136–138;

effect on trade, 289;

power of, 302;

in Poland, Kieff, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, 314

Strikes (Central Committee of), distrusts Imperial manifestoes, 20–21;

calls for military organization, 24;

meets in Hall of Free Economics, 25–36;

orders withdrawal of money from savings-banks, 77;

President of, arrested, 78;

members of, arrested, 80;

new Council and Executive appointed, 80;

manifesto to citizens, 229

Strikers, attack mail-cart, 101;

dispersed, 102;

demands of, 112;

condemned by Novoe Vremya, 114;

meet in Moscow Aquarium, 136;

passive resistance of, 229–230

Struve, editor of Emancipation, 246

Sumsky Dragoons, brutality of, 193

Suvorin, editor of Novoe Vremya, his son among revolutionists, 68

Sytin Printing Works destroyed by Government, 181

Taurida Palace, given up to Duma, 327;

guarded, 332

Times, Tolstoy’s protest in, 4;

statistics quoted from, 240;

financial figures quoted from, 309–310

Tolstoy, Demitri, Minister of Education, 241

Tolstoy, Leo, protests against war with Japan, 4;

position among revolutionists of, 56;

visit to, 91–96

Torture of prisoners, 192–195, 311

Toula, mutiny at, 2;

typical town, 81

Trepoff, first Governor-General of St. Petersburg, 13;

assistant Minister of Interior and Chief of Police, 14;

dismissal demanded, 21;

resigns, 22;

regretted, 33;

caricatured, 72;

connected with Odessa massacres, 233;

Master of Ceremonies, 319–320

Trepoff (the Elder), attempted assassination of, 233

Troubetzkoy, Prince Sergius, President of Moscow Zemstvo, inspires reform, 7, 246–248;

sudden death of, 17;

regretted, 110

Tsar, flees to Tsarkoe Selo, 13;

promises reforms, 15, 19, 21, 22;

withdraws promises, 22, 80, 103, 120, 121, 215;

as forester, 213;

builds palace for ex-mistress, 238;

pleasant myths about, 243;

meditates new Peace Conference, 308;

issues Ukase on Fundamental Laws, 314;

leaves Tsarskoe Selo for Peterhof, 316;

enters St. Petersburg by river, 319;

sprinkled with holy water, 323;

reads address in Winter Palace, 325;

flees back to Peterhof, 329

Unions, Trade, 104, 107

Vistula, dead bodies in, 300

“Vladimir’s Day,” or “Bloody Sunday,” 12, 319

Voiloshnikoff, chief of secret police, “executed,” 177–178

Vorobieff, Dr., murder of, 187

War, return of soldiers from, 97–100, 131;

effect on Poland, 288–289

Warsaw, trade of, 288;

political parties in, 293–299;

prisoners in, 299–300;

Governor-General’s offer to revolutionary Jewesses, 300

Winter Palace, massacre before, 11, 12;

how guarded, 319;

brilliant assembly in, 321–327

Witte, President of Committee of Ministers, 3, 241;

deputation to, 18;

replies, 19;

distrusted by Liberals, 22;

fatherly appeal to workers, 22;

caricatured, 72;

leaders of finance petition to, 103;

character discussed, 110;

whining of, 202, 241;

afraid of Constitutional Democrats, 244;

his affectation of liberalism, 308;

resigns, 313;

his removal makes Duma possible, 318;

in Council of Empire, 331

Workmen, demand universal sufferage, 18, 19;

dress of, 26;

patience of, 28;

first council of delegates, 37;

homes of, 38–48;

locked out, 40;

hours of labour, 42;

wages, 44;

standard of food and work, 45, 114;

amusements of, 47;

connection with land, 48;

shot down, 81;

equality of their women, 26;

their unions in Moscow, 105;

“living in,” 113;

wages increased, 114;

quarters in order, 232;

growing importance of, 288;

in Poland, 289;

their candidates for Duma imprisoned, 311;

only fifteen in Duma, 337

Zemstvos, recommend reforms, 2;

send petition of Rights, 7

Zemstvoists, meet in secret, 6;

discuss promised Duma, 16;

draw up programme of political aims, 16–17;

debate Witte’s character, and vanish, 110

Zilliacus, writer on struggle for Russian freedom, 2

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