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Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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creed.Several attempts were made to take his life; but he unflinchingly set towork to root out nihilism. The plotters were diligently sought for, and,when found, sentenced to death or to exile in Siberia. On the 2d of March, 1881, a grand military parade was held in St. Peters-burg, and Alexander II. went out, accomj)anied by his military staff andsurrounded by his Cossack bodyguard, to view the troops. As he wasreturning he passed a party of laborers, who were shoveling snow near theCatherine Canal. Among these men was one armed with a deadly bomb. Russia. 39 As the emperors carriage passed, the bomb was thrown, but it missed itsmark and only wounded two Cossack soldiers. The chief of police, in asleigh just behind, jumped out and seized the assassin. The emperor alsostepped from his carriage, and at that moment a second bomb was thrown,which did the fatal work. Two hours afterward Alexander the Liberator was no more. The Seceet Police. - -Few people would have cared to change places
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RUSSIAN PENAL, COLONY. with Alexander III. when he put upon his head the crown of Russia. Hislife was threatened on every hand. He was warned that if he did^ not givethe people a share in the government he must take the fate of his father.He determined to do neither; but to fight—first for his life, then for themaintenance of his title of Autocrat of all the Russias. The war begun byhis father against the nihilists and revolutionists he kept up with vigor. 40 Persons and Places in Europe. As they had their secret agents in every house to teach the doctrines ofnihilism, so the Czar sent his secret agents to spy them out—it might bein the guise of a cook, coachman, or chambermaid ; of a guest in the draw-ing-room, a general in the tent, or a midshipman on the quarter-deck. If aman spoke a word against the Czar to his nearest friend, that friend mightbe a spy who would report him to the secret police. Then a band of armedmen would enter his room at midnight, bind him, put him in a sl

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