The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-07-20
A PATHETIC STOR.Y.
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The Terrible Trials Of TWO Russian
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4 Tale Of Woe Well Cal cuiated to Bring
Tears to the Eyes OF the Reader-How
Noble Woman Lost Her Child
Misery That Is Indescribabie.

Tears to the Eyes OF the Reader-How
Noble Woman Lost Her Child
Misery That Is Understandable.
The following pathetic passage is from
one of Mr.. Remnants articles in the Cent
ury: "Two Of the most interesting polit-
icals whom we met in Irkutsk were Mr.. and
Mrs. Ivan Cherniavski, who were banished
to Siberia by administrative process in 1878.
became very well acquainted with them,
and for Mrs. Cherniavsli especially came
to feel the profoundest pity and regard.
Few women, even in Russia, have had be-
fore the age of thirty-five so tragic and
heart-breaking a life, and still fewer have
maintained through harrlships, sickness
and bereavement such cheerfulness and
courage. She was arrested in Odessa in
the early part of 1878 at the age of about
twenty-five, and after long term of inn
prisonment was sent by administrative
process to the province of Tobolsk. In the
city prison Of Kiev, on her way to Siberia,
ahc was detained for few days, and while
there was forced to be almost an eye-wit-
mes, OF the assassination of her dearest
friend. A young man of English descent
named Beverly, whom she had known from
childhood, had been arrested shortly before
upon the charge Of living on false pass.
port and carrying on revolutionary prop
uganda, and he was at that time in the
kiev prison. The night before Mrs. Cher
niavsli was to resume her journey to ST
IBERIA, Beverly, with q comrade named Izbit-
ski, attempted to escape through tunnel
which they had succeeded in digging from
their cell to point outside the prison wall.
The prison authorities, however, had in some
way become aware of the existence Of the
tunnel, and had posted squat of soldiers
near the place where the fugitives must
emerge from tho ground. Late at night,
when they made their appearance, they
were received with a volley of musketry.
Beverly was MORALLY wounded, and as he
lay writing on the ground he was dis
patched by q soldier with several repeated
bayonet-thrusts. Izbitslsi, wounded and Sc
verely beaten, was taken back into prison.
The next morning when Mrs. Cherniavski
started with her party for Siberia sbo had
to march past the bloody and disfigurod
body Of her dearest friend, which was still
lying where 1t had fallen, in plain sight Of
the prison windows.
"I can bear my own personal torment,
she said to me with sob as she finished the
story OF this tragedy, but such things as
that break my heart
II need not recount the hardships and
niseries that she, cultivated and refined
woman, endured on the road and in the
roadside etapes between Kiev and the small
town in the Siberian province Of Tobolsls
where she and her husband had been as
signed residence. They reached their
destination at last; child was there born
to them, and they lived there in something
like comfort until March, 1881, when Alex
snder III. came to the throne, and Mr.. Cher
niavski was required to take the oath of al
ieglance He refused to do SO, and they were
sent further eastward to the town OF Kras-
noyarsk. A second refusal to take the
oath Of allegiance resulted in their being
sent to lrkutsk. By this time winter had set
in, and they were travelling in an open taran-
tas with delicate baby thirteen months of
age. 1t was with the greatest difficulty
that Mrs. Cherniavski could keep her baby
warm, and at the last station before reach
ing Irkutsk she removed the heavy wrap
pings In which she had enveloped 1t and
found it dead. With the shock of this dis
covery she became delirious, and wept,
sang pathetic little nursery songs to her
dead child, rocked it in her arms, and prayed
and cursed God by turns. In the courtyard
Of the Irkutsk forwarding prison, in tenn
perature OF thirty degrees below zero, Mr..
Cherniavski stood for half an hour waiting
for the party to be formally received, with
his wife raving in delirium beside him and
his dead child in his arms.
MRS. Cherniavski lay in the prison hos
pital at lrkutsk until she recovered her rea-
Ion, and to some extent her strength, and
hen she and her husband We're sent two
thousand miles farther to the northeastward
Gnder guard Of gendarmes, and colonized in
aYakut settlement known as the Bataruslsi
ooloos, situated in the 'tiaga or primeval
wilderness of Yakutsk, one hundred
and sixty-fve miles from the near
est town. There, suffering almost ev-
cry conceivable hardship and privation.
they lived until 1884, when the Minister of
the Interior allowed them to return to a
more civilized part Of Siberia.
"Mrs. Cherniavski when l made her &C
quaintance was a pale, delicate, hollow
checked woman, whose health had been
completely wrecked by years of imprison-
ment, Punishment and grief. She had had
two children, and had lost them both in ex.
lie under circumstances that made the be
reavement almost intolerable; for seven
years she had been separated by a dis
lance of many thousand miles from all OF
her kindred; and the future seemed to
hold for her absolutely nothing except the
love OF her husband whose exile she could
still share, but whose interests she could dc
80 little in her broken state Of health TO pro-
mote. She had not been able to step out
side the house for two months, and il
seemed to me, when l babe her good bye
nat her life Of unhappiness and sufferir I
was drawing to close.
II do not know whether Mrs. Cherniavsk
IS now living or dead; but4if she be stl'