Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
WOMEN NIHILISTs OF RUSSIA.
They Are the Most Determined Enemies
OF the Gar.


OF the Gar.
In Russia women have become the
most daring enemies of despotism. They
invariably belong to the most intelligent
and cultivated classes. Letters and pho
tographs secretly received from Switzer
land throw considerable light on the lives
of those at present in exile and those who
have escaped to other lands.
Russia would have the rest of the
world believe that Nth :lism has become
extinct throughout the empire, says the
Chicago Times. What the organs of the
government voice and what the actions
of the people prove are two facts difficult
to reconcile. So strong has the move
ment now grown that high born DANES
do not hesitate to descend from their
lofty estate to assist the peasant mother
in the care or her little home, and at the
same time instill into her dulled intellect
something of the same spirit which in
spired her noble sacrifice in freedoms
cause.
OF this class was the nobly born and
highly gifted Alexandra Khorjevskaya,
who did such good work for the cause id
the province of Kieff. Her great beauty
and genial manners won all hearts to
her, and she was enabled to carry on her
work unsupported for several years. She
even penetrated into the police sanctums
of the cities she visited, and by this
means she obtained much valuable in
formation, and many times saved her CO.
workers from arrest and imprisonment.
The government, at last becoming con-
WINGED that some unseen power was at
work throughout Kieff, set their spies to
track the propagandist, and they sue
ceeded in entrapping Alexandra Khor-
jevskaya, who was arrested and thrown
into foul dungeon, where she lay foI
many months.
Without any form of trial whatever
she was exiled to Siberia with hard labor
for Is years. Another noted woman who
stands high in the ranks of the nihilists
is Eugenia Subotina, who fearlessly acted
the part of the spy in the interests of her
party, and finally succeeded in securing
from a leading off, ial all the immediate
plans of General Ignatieff for the over
throw of nihilism. There We're two
Subotina sisters, Eugenia and Maria.
Both were instrumental in distributing
incendiary literature throughout St.
Petersburg and Moscow, and both were
sent to Siberia. They belong to one of
the oldest Russian families, and were
noted for their beauty and intelligence.
The schools and colleges in Russia are
unlike those of other countries, in that
they are veritable hotbeds of intrigue.
One reason of this is that the rules govern
ing these institutions are of the most ar
btrary description, and youth naturally
rebels against the hand of oppression. A
number of students conversing together
is sufficient to arouse suspicion, and they
are quickly made to dispense. This sys-
tenn of repression naturally engenders a
feeling of secrecy, which, allied to mys-
terry, appeals only too forcibly to the
student mind, and while meetings are
arranged under the very eyes of the pro-
fessors, they are usually held outside, at
the homes of the sympathizers. The en-
thusiasm of the youthful nihilists knows
no bounds, and their inexperience is fire.
quently the means of landing them in
prisons and fortresses, which stand ever
ready to receive them. That nihilsm is
not dead in Russia retrospect of the last
two years will plainly show, for during
that time the wholesale arrest of students
has many times occurred.