Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-23
A ROMANCE OF RUSSIA,
Elopement of q Generals Wife With .
Nihilist, and Her Subsequent Death.

Elopement of Generals Wife With a
Nihilist, and Her Subsequent Death.
The st. Petersburg central committee of the
ninilists, it is said, ordered some three months
ago one Of their members, a handsome young
aristocrat, to engage in an intrigue with the
wife of Gen. Browdenki, shining light of the
political police of the car, whose duty it is to
watch the International League of Nihilists and
Socialists. The generals wife was well known in
st. Petersburg for her many adventures and the
nihilists thought their comrade might, by cap
turing the beauty, ascertain certain secrets OF
the political police.
The comrade did honor to the confidence
which his friends had extended him, and on
November 10 eloped with the generals wife
from st. Petersburg, the woman having first
provided herself with Is, 600 roubles from her
husband s safe. She also, as is usual in such
cases, took her diamonds along
The pair first travelled to Vienna where they
put up at the celebrated Hotel Cacher, the gem
erals wife registering as Mile. Anna Ritter, he
as Richard Werner. supposed to be Annals i'm
pressario. From Vienna the bogus manager
sent some excellent news to his Russian COM
patriots, which he got from the generals wife,
and then received orders from the committee
to proceed TO Paris and confer with the nihil-
lists living in the capital of France. The pair
Immediately started for Paris. where they met
some of the leading members Of the fraternity.
and where the generals wife, who did not
know how her confidence was played upon.
made further revelations.
From Paris the pair travelled to Switzerland
and in Geneva encountered another lot Of nj
hilists hungry for news. Then they we're Or
dered to proceed to Milan, where the same
thing happened, and finally to Trieste. There
they made stop of more than week, enjoy
ing life in quiet fashion. But the St. Peters
burg central committee would not allow them
TO rest and again commanded them to proceed
to Fiume. They had no sooner put up at the
Hotel ROYAL 0f that place when a cipher dis
patch ordered them to return at once to Kief
This was on the 5th Of January.
FELL INTO TRAP.
The nihilist, though thinking it very strange
that his comrades recalled him SO quickly and
demanded him tosput himself into imminent
danger of capture, obeyed the summons and
with the generals wife re-entered Russia They
had no sooner crossed the frontier when num-
Der OF police officers in citizens dress entered
their carriage and informed them that they
were prisoners Of state. Arrived at K;ef they
we're at once confronted by Gen. Browdenki
and subjected to rigid REORGANIZATION.
The generals wife, upon seeing her husband,
assumed a defiant attitude and crossing her
arms over her breast stood up bodily and said II
am nihilist, and will not reveal one single
word Of what know"
The general tried his best to move her. but
on receiving defiant answers finally got SO en-
ragged that he drew his sword and plunged it
into his wife's heart. killing her instantly. The
nihilist was carried off to St. Petersburg, where
he Is now imprisoned.
The car, it is said, dismissed Gen. Brow
denki, maintaining that an officer who allowed
his wife to be abducted by the very enemy
whom he was sworn to fight, and who afterward
killed his wife without making an attempt ts
wiring from her the secrets shs possessed, way
unworthy Of confidence.