Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-05
YOUNG RUSSIA AND OLD RUSSuae
The Astounding Revelations Made md
Some Recent Trials and Their Effect
From the New York Sun

Some Recent Trials and Their Effect.
From the New York Sun.
ST. PETERSBURG, June l5.-For years Il has
been customary to charge Young Russia" with
all the manifold troubles OF the country. IL has
been repeatedly stated, both officially and pri-
yateiy. that the Russian universities of TO-DAY
do nothing but prepare proselytes for the reyo-
iutionary leaders, who boldly denounce the triple
Russian principle "autocracy, orthodoxy and
nationalism." Ii seemed that more than score
If nihllst trials sustained that view In the
Ears courts there have been repeatedly wit
messed scenes like this:
Your name?" "A terrorist" Your occu-
patton Z! " Destruction OF cZarism" "Your
faIth?" "Social-revolutionary. "what means
OF subsistence have your "A revolutionary
fund"
So the respectable public. largely composed Of
the fathers. found 1t advantageous TO denounce
of the sons
But new scenes have been witnessed i'm the
same courts of justice. Not the sons but the
fathers, were this time In the prisoners box.
Recently in the supreme marine court the sur
geon general OF the navy, Privy Councillor Bog
dan Bush, man 81 years old was tried On
the trial IL was proved that during seventeen
years OF his administration not single surgeon
OF the navy was appointed. promoted, or given
leave OF absence without bride and there ara
several thousand navy surgeons Every marine
hospital-and there are about one hundred of
them-rad the surgeon general an annual SUBJ
sldy. He had perfected bribery into a system
His secretary. Andreeff. and his clerk Parfenoff,
were instructed by him TO collect annually a
certain amount from every surgeon and every
hospital. As 10 the contracts for supplying the
marine hospitals with goods the surgeon gen.
eral attended TO them himself and his bribes
were usually in biz. round figures pr Bush
was sentenced TO be deprived of all his rights
and privileges and eyiled TO Siberia for four
years. The people We're aStounded by the dis
closures of this trial. and they now call il "the
Bushlad. Those who We're present ut the re-
hearSal OF the Bushiad asked one another. Now.
who do you think is the better, the sons or the
fathers?"
A fortnight previous to this trial State Coun-
clllor'Maksheen n years old, with a number of
his subordinate officers, was tried for bribery
in the district court. Maksheefr was the CHEF
intendant during the late Turko-Russian war.
and 1t was his duty to make contracts with the
men who supplied the army with provisions.
Among the defendants there were also a num-
Der of well-known mlliOnares. On the trial IL
was proved that not a single contract was made
without big bride being paid. In fact about
a third OF all the money drawn for the pro-
visions OF the army was left i'm the pockets of
the Cars officers. Maksheeff and his subordi-
mates We're sentenced TO ten wears of hard lahor
in the Siberian mines. The milliouaires who
bribed the officers were acquitted, for, according
TO the CZars law. man may offer bride with
lmpunity; only he who accepts a bride COM
mits crime. Among the auditors in the court
room were heard remarks like this: T" To cheat
the soldiers who We're fighting. starving and
freezing. is that not far worse than conspiracy
against the state?"
These two recent cases have led the public to
recall other important cases wherein the
fathers" were defendants State Councillor
Oysiannikoff took the government contract for
supplying the army with flour. When he re-
allied that he could not make the expected
proft he burned his mill. and then declared that
the flour had been ready. but was DESTROYED IN
the fire. He was tried and convicted az an in
cendiary and eXiled to Orenburg. where how
ever, he played the part of a provincial lion
Mother Mitrophana, the abbess of female con-
vent, took money on deposit. or borrowed 1t
from pious people. and speculated with IL on
Change She failed. and her pous creditors
were detrauded. She was tried and convicted
Nine. Gulak-8rtemoysky. the wife Of an official
OF high rank. being on the best of terms with the
heads OF all the state departments. was early in
formed OF all financial projects Of the govern
ment. She knew how to transform that knowl-
edge into gold. Thus she acquired millions and
divided with the officials She pTactised 'ad-
dition and division" but silence was beyond her
power and 50 She rot into the prisoners box
1t required the combined efforts OF all the heads
OF the departments TO save her from Siberia but
they could not save their own reputation. Direc-
tors of banks have defrauded their creditors.
treasurers have stolen the government money.
Governors have robbed villages or stolen gov
eminent lands: million of roubles have been
spent for worthless men-Ot-war and SO on. In
these cases the names of men of the highest
rank and greatest wealth are coupled with
crime and immortality.
''Well who are the better the sons or the
fathers | asked prominent Russian LAWYER
The sons, at the very beginning Of their
short public life" he replied. boldly and
openly renowned the triple principle of autoc-
racy. orthodoxy and natiOnasfn and they are
aai zeal
fathers. on the contrary protesting to serve
God, autocrat and country. in fact violate their
oaths. In short, the sins of the fathers have
brought on the revolt of the sons"