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far back a. 1870 women Of good family
began to assume nihllist leadership and
became even more fanatical than the
men. Some Of them proved absolutely
fearless and regardless Of their own lives.
They cut Of their hair and nssnien studied
in the colleges particularly along the line
Of chemistry, until they beeames expert
makers OF deadly explosives. Young woms
en- Of the highest rank dressed themselves
as peasants and sought mental employ
ment that they might be enissaries of nj
hilism. 80.
The Princess Tomborskoie was found
working among washerwomen spreading
the propaganda. and the universities be
came mere training schools for such as
she. Many of them have been sent to
Siberia.
One Of these women leaders was Mms.
Catherine Rerschkovsky, a member of an
sristocratic family, who was imbued with
revolutionary ideas from her youth. She
iectured TO the peasants till silenced by
The government. Then, under various dis
Euises, she travelled about until 1874
Shen she was arrested and sent to ST.
IBERIA with some 500 others. She was
The first woman to be sentenced to hard
labor in the mines. She escaped. but was
secaptured and kept convict till 1896.
In the recent outbreak of assassinations
women and girls have committed many of
the most daring attacks on officials of
the regime. The instance most familiar is
that of the killing Of Luzhanoffsky, chief
of the secret police. by Marie Spiridonova,
who has been called the second Charlotte
Corday She is only II years old. After
shooting the official she was subjected to
such inhuman cruelty by the Cossacks,
who sent her at last to the hospital with
fractured skull and many frightfui
wounds on her body, and there was
great cutlery throughout all Russia against
such barbarism.
Recently one Of these fanatical women
committed suicide because her plans at
assassination had failed. She was Bar
bara Printz Of Moscow. daughter OF Lieut.
Gen. Printz. Among her friends at school
had been the daughters of Gov. Gen.
Gaulbars of Odessa. These young ladies
sent her an invitation to pay them visit.
She told her superiors among the nihilists
of the. opportunity presented by the invi-
tation, and they commissioned her to kill
the governor general. She went to Odessa
and was daily visitor at the palace of
the governor, though part of the time oc-
cupying room at a hotel. Friday she
started from the hotel to 20 to the gov
errors palace, having in the meantime
learned the easiest means of gaining en-
trance to his presence. Beneath her cloak
she carried a bomb. Accidentally she
dropped the bomb on the street and it ex-
ploded with terrific force, but she was not
injured. Knowing that any further effort
at assassination would now be fruitless,
she returned to the hotel and killed her
self with a revolver.