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