The White Terror and The Red: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia

The next morning the Police Master, "in order to avoid bloodshed," issued a proclamation forbidding Jews to leave their houses. The order was copied from one that had been issue...

The little man who played the part of errand boy at the cheese shop and who was arrested before the work on the mine was well advanced had ultimately turned state's evidence. Am...

When Pavel arrived in St. Petersburg, in the last days of July, his recent tribulations seemed a thing of the faded past. The capital was a fascinating setting for the great uni...

The next morning, as Clara walked along Kasimir Street, she saw Volodia Vigdoroff, her cousin, talking and laughing exuberantly to two elderly men in front of the flashy window...

Clara alighted from the train at a station immediately preceding Miroslav. She was met by Olga, the girl with the short hair and sparse teeth who was engaged to the judge, the t...

One afternoon, in December of the same year, Pavel sat in a student restaurant, in the capital, eating fried steak and watching the door for a man with whom he had an appointmen...

Pavel's mother, the countess, had not been in Miroslav since March. She lived in retirement on one of her estates in another province, in a constant tremour of fear and compunct...

Pavel dined at the major's house. He was in high spirits, but the hour of his expected meeting with the girl of the Pievakin demonstration was drawing near, and his impatience w...

It was Friday night at the Old Synagogue, but the cheery voices of Sabbath Eve were not there. The air of having cast one's cares aside was missing. Instead of a light-hearted t...

Alexander II. passed part of the summer of 1874 in a German health-resort taking the mineral waters. When not in the castle in which he was staying with his train he affected th...

Clara was with her parents in a White-Russian town. The inn at which they were stopping was entered through a vast yard, partly occupied by fruit-barns. It was the height of the...

Meanwhile a reform measure which subsequently became known as "the constitution of Loris-Melikoff" had been framed and submitted to the Czar by the Minister of the Interior. The...

About a week had elapsed, when Pavel read in his morning paper of the hanging of three revolutionists in Odessa: two Gentiles and a Jew. He had never met these men, but he knew...

At the hour of Pievakin's departure the Miroslav railway station was crowded with gymnasium pupils of both sexes, but Pavel was not among them. He had not been informed that suc...

Months had passed. Spring was three or four weeks old, but cell No. -- on the first floor of the Trubetzkoy Bastion, Fortress of Peter and Paul, had not yet tasted its caressing...

Every resident in the capital was being scanned and spied after, and every house-porter was kept peeking and seeking and reporting at the police station of his precinct. The rai...

A tall man with a reddish beard called at one of the police stations of the capital about a cheese store which he was going to open on Little Garden Street. He gave his name as...

The capture of the man with the Greek name proved disastrous to the Executive Committee. It was the first link in a chain of most important arrests. The trap set at his house ca...

foundation to her love of the masses dealt in Gentiles, not in Jews. Nekrasoff bewailed the misery of the Russian moujik, not of the common people of her own race. Turgeneff's s...

When Pavel told his mother that he was going out he expected to meet Makar, who had been in Miroslav for the past four days. Once again he was going to plead with him to give up...

In 1648, when Chmyelnicki's Cossacks slaughtered 40,000 Jews, Miroslav was among the cities that fell into their blood-dripping hands. It was a small town then; the Jewish popul...

As Pavel mounted the majestic staircase of his mother's residence he became aware that an abstract facial expression was all his memory retained of Mlle. Yavner's likeness. He c...

On Saturday morning Weinstein's salon was crowded with worshippers, all married men in their praying shawls and skull-caps. A Good Jew is exempt from praying with the congregati...

When Pavel was in St. Petersburg Anna Nicolayevna had missed him only occasionally. Now that he was with her his absences were a continuous torture to her. On the present occasi...

Clara was introduced to Mme. Shubeyko, the warden's sister-in-law, and to her niece, the gendarme officer's sister. At first communication with Makar was held by means of notes...

Zorki was in a state of joyous excitement. The "Good Jew" of Gornovo, accompanied by a retinue of beadles, secretaries, "reciters," attendants, scribes and hangers on, was pleas...

Meanwhile Pavel, Mme. Shubeyko, Masha, Mlle. Andronoff and her fiance, the near-sighted judge with the fluffy hair, went on with their plot. A considerable sum was needed to bri...

Alexander III. and his court moved to the long-deserted imperial palace at Gatchina, a village 28 English miles from St. Petersburg. The young Czar and his entourage were in a s...

That walk to the trackman's hut had kindled a new light in Pavel's soul. He often found himself craving for a repetition of the experience--not merely for Clara's companionship,...

An hour or more later, while she and Rodkevich were absorbed in a game of cards in the parlour and a solitary star shone out of the semi-obscurity of a colorless sky, Makar, cle...

A lesson in Latin was in progress. The teacher was a blond Czech. Pavel looked at him intently, trying to follow the exercises, but he only became the more aware of the foreigne...

The Czar was still in Livadia with his bride, abandoning himself to his second youth with a passion that was tinged with the pathos of imminent tragedy, when Count Loris-Melikof...

A large crowd of peasants, in tall straw hats, many of them with their whips in their hands, congregated in front of the bailiff's office at Zorki. It was a sultry afternoon in...

In June of that year, shortly before Makar escaped from prison, the unhappy Empress of Russia died after a long illness that was generally ascribed to her many years of jealousy...

A month had elapsed. Clara was in a train, bound for Moscow, where her lover was awaiting her arrival. The nearer she drew to her destination the more vivid grew his features in...

The ministers were reporting to the Czar who had recently returned from Livadia. They were admitted one at a time. As they sat chatting under breath in the blue waiting room, wi...

Pavel's prediction concerning Yossl came true, but the identity of the province to which the missing medical student belonged and the one in which the unknown Nihilist had been...

Miroslav was trisected longitudinally by a clear, cheerful river and by Kasimir Street, its principal thoroughfare, which contained most of its public buildings and best shops....

A young man had been seized with seditious publications. It was the first political arrest in Miroslav, and the report was spreading in a maze of shifting versions. This much se...

Parmet now gave most of his time to the secret movement, making himself useful in a variety of ways. His great unrealised ambition, however, was to work in an underground printi...

It was an evening in the spring, 1879. The parlour of a wealthy young engineer in Kharkoff--a slender little man with eyelids that looked swollen and a mouth that was usually ha...

At Boyko's Court the chilly dawn lit up a barricade of wheels, axles, and bodies of peasant waggons. Through wide cracks of a fence came the shifting light of a lantern and the...

On Tuesday, February 17th, at about six o'clock in the evening, Pavel and Makar were sauntering through the streets of the Vassili Island. Their conversation languished. While i...

It was one o'clock when the assemblage broke up. They scattered over various sections of the town, Pavel going to his home in the Palace, while Clara, accompanied by Elkin and O...