The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-15
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thofity ara nearing their close and that
there will be no sicceNnor ~ he optoftunis
Ties, " hia simple and retnarhabls career
IL 10 10 understood n In bettsr 60 accept
HE ovh estimate n himself than that NJ he
enemies. Any man who has controlled the
political police II Russia will be Feviled and
detessed by HE countSymsn all his life, and
he will never Get o particle Of credit for
attempting 10 rise 10 wider statesmanahip.
Trepoff inherited from his father che work Of
preventing what are politely called 'acol-
dente' In high Russian society from hap
pening 10 members Of the Csarls family.
Every social and human interest of the
people was subordinated 70 making assas.
eination impossible. Trepof all tho time
that he wa chief Of police In Moscow kept
alive the deeply hated Grand Duke Serge;
but two months after the need for protecting
the life Of the Csar became Urgent and
brought Trepoh to 81, Petersburg Serge was
blown TO pieces. Your correspondent has
had at long intervals three conversations
with Trepoff. and the occasion OF the fret
Of them helps to indicate the view that the
great police general takes OF himself. II was
two days after he came TO st. Petersburg
last year az Governor Of the capital. Ire
pof was not here during the January out
burst, but he kept Moscow quiet through
that ordeal. He was sent for because the
nerves Of the Government and OF the Gar
and Vladimir were wrecked: and they de-
pended upon him to enforce order whatever
happened. He wished to be known as some
thing more than a policeman, and to that end
one OF his aides-de-camp suggested q visit
to him as Governor Of the city, but not with
any proposal for q political interview. It
proved easy to see him. With mes own
calling card and that Of the aide-de-camp
there was very little waiting necessary
at the Winter Palace, where he vas in
stalled during the crisis.
The aide-de-campd did the introducing and
forthwith retired. Trepohf came forward
with a Arm handshake, motioned his visitor
to a chair, and seating himself by his writ
ing table commenced his talk, smoking
cigarettes all the while. He is about s feet
10 inches tall and has light brown hair,
with a tendency to badness, a short beard
and m%ustaohe, and features Of the rather
handsome military kind, somewhat heavy
and very firm. What one most remem-
hers about him lie his ~eyes-laige, rather
prominent, Of deep slate gray. scarcely
ever changing expression. He said that
the normal life Of the capital would soon
be restored. II foreign owners Of factories
we're threatened they would have all the
protectiont they asked for, and Immediately.
Political grievances were not his affair,
but he would stamp out disorder. He went
next day over the ~improvised prison where
the worst cases, Of the bomb throwing,
looting and incendiary kind, were herded
together In a military stores shed. After
a walk around he turned to the officer in
charge and said bluntly: More than five
hundred. and not a human face among
them!' 1t is safe to say that those Of the
Ave hundred who were not shot are now
chained to their burrows in tn, mines Of
Yakutsk.
Thu next visit to Trepoff was last summer,
when 1t was maintained that the Gar
it was before his first Duma manifesto
was going the following Friday to Moscow
to proclaim a constitution to his people
from the great gate Of the Kremlin. As
any incredible thing Is possible in this
country, it seemed best to go to Trepoff
himself, Minister OF Police for the Empire,
and ask for the necessary tickets to see the
ceremony. He laughed loudly. a very I'M
usual thing for him to do, and said; "Oh,
tell me who started that story! What non
sense! What a joke!' 1t amused him vastly
that the people should think that he would
allow the Car to 20 to Moscow. He was,
indeed, under no delusions about the oapac-
ity Of even his own police organization to
protect imperial journeys. There have
been six attempts to assassinate Trepoff
himself, and yet he has never tried to get
from his work. Toward the end
Of last year, when the worst storm was
gathering round him. he frequently rode
concealed in a Red Cross hospital van on
his journeys from his st. Petersburg resi-
dence to the Cars private train when he
wanted to give his master advice. What
his advice has always been the world know We;
what he would be as actual Car himself
can be guessed from the certainty that he
would not ask Nicholas for advice. His
incompatible ~ascehdency over the Car is
based chiefly on his strong simple charac-
ter. He passes hours daily with his master
at Peterhof, and makes him a daily report
the situation throughout the empire.
In a more elementary way than Pobiedo-
he holds that it is the first duty Of
a servant Of the autocracy to propagate
and suppress error. By the first
he means unquestioning obedience to
authority, and the prisons can tell what
he means by suppressing error.
For all his masterfulness, he is no oandi-