The dawn in Russia

The Schlüsselburg Road--The River--The People and the Cossacks--Casual massacres--The Workmen’s Militia--The Alexandrovsky ironworks--The mills--The hours of labour--Wages--Pric...

Meeting of December 4th--The Salt Town--Gapon’s followers--Barashoff, the Chairman--The Hymn of the Fallen--Russian music--Police spies--Russian Oratory--Moderate demands of the...

Effect of the post strike--Volunteer sorters--Epidemic of strikes--Joy in public speaking--The power of speech--Sudden outburst of newspapers--_The Russian Gazette_--_The New Li...

The town of Toula--The road to the country--The travelling peasant--The wayside inn--A country house--Landowners at home--A typical village--A cottage interior--The stove and th...

The return of the Army--How they were received--Fears and hopes about their return--Would the soldiers obey?--The Rostoff regiment--The Cossacks and the crowd--Instinct of mutua...

St. Nicholas’ Day--Fears and expectations--The Black Hundred Perils of night--The new Governor-General--The sacred Banners--The crowd of worshippers--The procession--The bishops...

My start for the Caucasus--The railway strike begins--The peasants on the train--General strike--Provisions cut short--Friendly discussions with soldiers--A red flag procession-...

Reports of the revolution--Guns on the Theatre Square--Explosion in a gun-shop--Increase in the fighting--Sledges refuse the wounded--The merciful soldier--A schoolboy killed--T...

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...

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--Conseque...

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 Isra...

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...

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 concer...

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--Charact...

Polish tendency to division--The reactionary position stated--Supposed beneficence of martial law--Suppression good for Poles--Absurdities of Socialists and Nationalists--Reconq...

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...

Baleful prophecies--Provocations--Meeting of Constitutional Democrats broken up by police--Ministerial figureheads--Birthday of freedom--Trepoff’s precautions--Ceremony in Winte...

Away in the western quarter of St. Petersburg, at some distance from the fashionable centre, stands a rather decrepit hall of debased classic. In England one would have put it d...

The Schlüsselburg road runs nearly all the way beside the great stream of the Neva, which was still pouring down in flood in those November days, though it sounded incessantly w...

The morning of December 4th was damp and misty, but from an early hour crowds of working people were standing in the slushy snow outside the queer old arrangement of two or thre...

In those happy weeks when freedom still was young and living, two things ruled the country--speech and the strike, the word and the blow. The strike was everywhere felt. No lett...

Under the waning moon, before the dawn of a December day, I drove out of the town of Toula in my tiny sledge--so close to the snow that the great black horse with his high yoke...

On the morning of Saturday, December 9th, the day after I had arrived in Moscow, I happened to be passing the unfinished buildings of the empty University. Minute snow was lashi...

St. Nicholas’ Day of December 19th had long been awaited with expectation, both of triumph and fear. It was the Tsar’s christening day--one of the four festivals which were give...

Next day (December 20th), I had determined to start for the Caucasus, because very severe fighting was reported there, and it was said, I believe truly, that in some places the...

The next day was our Christmas Eve--a Sunday. I had stayed the night, as I said, in the west of the disturbed district, and in the early morning some revolutionists came into th...

In many battles there comes a moment when little or nothing appears to have changed, and yet you suddenly realize that all is over but the running. Such a moment came on the mor...

The failure at Moscow fell like a blight upon all Russia, and hope withered. The revolutionists, certainly, protested that much was gained. They admitted that they had allowed t...

When I reached Odessa, after travelling over the peculiarly desolate steppe from Kieff, only about eleven weeks had passed since she celebrated an amazing festival of liberty. H...

In St. Petersburg the successors of the original Strike Committee had declared the general strike at an end, on January 1st. The thing had not been a success. Either because the...

The shallows of the Gulf of Finland were frozen hard, and from a distance the sea looked like a huge flat plain covered with snow, while wind and grey storms of drift raged over...

At the end of January I left St. Petersburg for Riga and the Baltic Provinces. As in other parts of Russia, the hopes of change had faded there, and the whole land lay prostrate...

Outside the discussion of an English Education Bill, I suppose that upon the world’s surface you would not find such an atmosphere of energetic pettiness and trivial virulence a...

When for a time I left Russia in February, the powers of reaction were at their highest, and at such a moment it might well seem absurd to speak of the dawn, for the ancient dar...

The 10th of May had long been announced as the official birthday of Russian freedom, but every one was astonished when the birth actually took place, and the officials were the...