Chapter X: The Days of Moscow--Iii

The beginning of the end--My attempts at
photography--Unsuspected presence of revolutionists--Search
for revolvers--Labels for identification--Fresh fighting on
the Government’s left--But the main movement was
failing--Revolutionists appeal for volunteers--Official
estimate of casualties--Assassination of the chief of secret
police--The Sadovaya at dawn--The police receive rifles--The
barricades destroyed--Business resumed by order--Relief of
business people--Fighting continues in Presnensky
District--Mills held for the revolution--Arrival of the
Semenoffsky Guards--Bombardment of the district--The murder
of Dr. Vorobieff for assisting the wounded--The district from
the inside--Attempts to escape--End of the rising--Various
estimates of dead and wounded--The executions--The slaughter
of prisoners--The flogging of boys and girls--Christmas
Day--The ceremony in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 169

CHAPTER XI

IN LITTLE RUSSIA

Results of the rising--Revolutionists claim some
success--Some gain in unity--But the movement lost
prestige--Hopes of winning over troops proved vain--Reasons
of this--Consequent elation of the Government--Hopes of a
new loan--Witte laments his lost faith--My journey to
Kieff--Harvest rotting on the platforms--Kieff as religious
centre--Pilgrimages to the catacombs--An intellectual
centre--Character of Little Russians--Their costume--No
thought of separation--Apprehension of Poles--The Little
Russian movement--The recent riots of Loyalists--Attack on
the British Consulate--Persecution of Jews--Crowded prisons
and typhus--The Black Earth--Grain as Russia’s chief
export--Poverty of the villages--Reasons for this--The
country districts quiet 198

CHAPTER XII

THE JEWS OF ODESSA

Joy over the Manifesto--Violent suppression--Trepoff and
Neidhart--The days of massacre--Present state of Jewish
quarters--Habits of Jews--Refusal of concealment--A type of
Israel--Attempts at relief--Difficulties of
organization--Flight of the rich and distress of their
parasites--Dockers and their poverty--The Constitutional
democrats--Their programme--The Jewish Bund--Jewish
disqualifications--The English Aliens Act 215

CHAPTER XIII

LIBERTY IN PRISON

Murder of the student Davidoff--Precautions for the
anniversary of Bloody Sunday--Strike Committee orders a
memorial of silence--The day on the Schlüsselberg
road--The Navy and telescopic sights--Silence in the
workmen’s districts--The Vampire and Freedom--Wholesale
arrests--Methods of imprisonment and sentence--The House of
Inquiry--A letter from prison--The Peter-Paul
fortress--Khroustoloff’s prison--The Cross
prison--Imprisonments and executions--Why Russia has no
Cromwell--The Schlüsselberg converted into a mint--Statistics
of suppression--The committee of ministers--Siberian exile
continued--Meetings of Constitutional Democrat
delegates--Their methods and programme--Their
leaders--Miliukoff still hopeful 228

CHAPTER XIV

THE PRIEST AND THE PEOPLE

Over the ice to Kronstadt--Father John and his shelter--The
service of the altar--His blessing--His miraculous life and
powers--His influence in reaction--A revolutionary
concert--The proletariat of intellect--Russian
democracy--The use of the parable--The bond of danger--The
advantage of tyranny 248

CHAPTER XV

A BLOODY ASSIZE

The Baltic Provinces--Lists of floggings and
executions--Vengeance of the German landowners--They are
weary of town life--Letts driven to execution--The Irish
of Russia--Character of the people--Their songs--Their
religion--Their buildings--Their isolated farms--Disaster
of Russification--The burning of country houses--“We have
condemned you to death”--Mixture of social and national
grievances--Refusal of Germans to appeal to Berlin--The
case of Pastor Bielenstein--A Lettish scholar--A rebel’s
funeral--The assize in the country--Executions ordered by
telephone--The case of a schoolmistress--Reprisals and
rescues 262

CHAPTER XVI

THE PARTIES OF POLAND

Polish tendency to division--The reactionary position
stated--Supposed beneficence of martial law--Suppression
good for Poles--Absurdities of Socialists and
Nationalists--Reconquest of Finland necessary--Poland
essential as barrier against Germany--The Polish
workman--Disasters in Polish trade--Loss of credit--The
landless labourers--Education--Wages--Rent--Polish
brides and demand for ancestral relics--The Realist
party--The National Democrats--A meeting to practice for
elections--A Nationalist programme--The Progressive
Democrats--The National Socialists--The Social
Democrats--The Proletariat Socialists--The Jewish
Bund--Attempts to influence the Army--Executions of
so-called Anarchists and Jews--The Warsaw citadel--Two
brave Jewesses 282

CHAPTER XVII

THE DRAMA OF FREEDOM

The struggle between Freedom and Oppression--The early
hopes--The Government’s uncertainty--The plot to overthrow
Freedom--Its apparent success--The new loan
secured--Difficulty of realizing the actual truth beneath
abstractions--Persistence of the revolution--Summary of
events--Finance and the elections--Execution of Lieutenant
Schmidt--Victory of the Constitutional Democrats--Germany
refuses to share in the loans, but France and England
subscribe largely--Resignation of Count Witte--Reported death
of Father Gapon--Attempt to assassinate Admiral
Dubasoff--Assassination of General Jeoltanowski--Fundamental
Law--New Ministers--Preparing for the Duma 301