Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-08
Charges Against Prisoners.

Nine. breshkovskaya was arrested in
October, 1907, on information received by
the director of the Simbirsk provincial
gendarmerie that she had arrived in Sim
birsh to take part in the provincial
meeting Of peasants She was found in
the house Of Deputy Zimin of the second
duula, having IN her possession a pass
port bearing the name of Elizabeth WASH
leVna kochetkoya.
In November of the same year Nicholas
V. TSchaikovSky was arrested at the FIN
nish railroad station in ST. Petersburg as
he was about to take a train for Fin
land. He refused to give his name. When
searched two passports were found on
hlm, one an American passport issued
to the American citizen Jonn Smith, and
the other Russian passport book
forged, as it later developed, issued in
the name Of Nikanor Pav.ovich Nikiforoff
The act of accusation gives a long re-
cital of the alleged revolutionary activity
Of Tschaikovsky and Nine Breshkov-
skaya for many years back, including
Tschaikovsky's part in the formation Of
the so-called ''Tschaikovsky circle Of
revolutionists, his arrests, his flights at
various times and his residence in Amer
lea, France and England, and the ar
rest and exile of Nine. Breshkovskaya
Numerous citations are given from the
writings of both the accused to show
that they advocated openly revolution and
terrorism In Russia
Alleged Activity Kept Up.
"Tschaikovsky and Breshkovskaya.'
says the accusation, did not cease their
criminal, anti-governmental activity after
the PRONUNCIATION of the manifesto OF free
dom Of October 30, 1905 and the general
amnesty of November 4, 1905, but con-
tinued it until the time of their arrest"
Feodoroff, a political agent of the Sc
y,n1i IN, xx-f&l
ence to Tschaikovsky's movements, de-
clares that Tschaikovsky went to New
York in 1906 in company with two revo-
lutionists, to arrange shipment OF arms
to Russia, and that he was also in Amer
lea in 1907, where, with Deputy Alladin
of the first duma, he arranged in various
cities large meetings, at which he spoke
against the Russian government and COL
lected money for the revolutionary aims
bringing back with him to Europe about
$4,000.
Citations are made from a long list
of other dispositions and from various
records obtained by the police.
Long List of Accusations.
The indictment then formulates the ac-
cusations, as follows:
ION the ground of the foregoing, the
commoner and former exile, Ekaterina
Constantinova Observation-Disclosures
and the nobleman. Nicholas Vasilievich
Tschaikovsky, are accused: That in the
period from the end Of 1905 to 1907
they were members of criminal or
ganization calling itself the social revo-
Iutionary party and having for its aim
the forcibIe overthrow of the existing
government in Russia by general
armed uprising and the establishment of
a democratic republic: that to realize
these criminal aims they became MEM
bers of the central committee of the
party, to which was intrusted the d.
rection of the activity of the various
party organizations. that in December,
1905, after the formation OF the All
Russian Peasants Union they became
members. and in 1905 travelled through
a considerable part OF European Russia
to carry criminal propaganda and to
incite the peasantry to agrarian disor-
ders and terrorism against the land-own-
ers; that in 1906 they participated in
various party conferences in Kursk
province and ST. Petersburg, at which
they advocated an armed uprising.
partisan war and a broad extension Of
terrorism; that In February, 1907. they