Evening star., 1917-09-30
BY v. v. KIRIAKCFF.
Translated by Isaac Don Levine.

IrQnSfQtSQ Oy isaac ION Lettte-
Il heard recently thesfollowing CONVEX
sation in a street car:
How do you explain Russia's ardent
love for kerensky?'
Tho person to whom the question was
addressed answered. without thinking
3ong:
lit is mutual Russia has taken a liking
70 him because he long ago conceived an
6ffection for RUSSIA genuine, respect
ful, filial affection.
And this is-the truth
Kerensky loves Russia ardently. And
he has been loving her ever since he was
What was the motive in Kerenskys love
for Mother Russia?
he reached the days of understanding,
the sufferings to which our mother coun-
try had been subjected for long centuries
BY her hereditary torturers. the autocratic
cars and their hateful bodyguards.
famed the slumbering ember into fame.
He conceived his passionate fraternal af-
fection for the entire Russian laborins
class because he heard the groan which
for ages was sent up over the suffering
hnd.
Alexander Fedorovitch Kerensky first
heard it moaning over the great Rus
oian river while yet in his cradle.
He was born at Simbrsk. on the
Volga. in the year. memorable for Rus
ofa. of 1881. His father. Fedor Mich
Ailovitch. was principal of the Sim
Uirsk High School. The day of young
kerensky's birth. April %. was almost
Coincidental with the last day of sew
eral great champions of Russian lib
6rty-Perovskaya, Sheliaboff, Michai-
lon. Kilbatchitch and Rysakoff, the
Ityevolutionaries hanged in the Semio-
novsk square at the order of Alexan-
1 Ter III.
His first Hsping utterances almost
0pincided with the last lispings of ter
fortzed Russia
Early Sensed Horror Of Czarism.
Kerensky's first childhood reco1lec-
tions. going back to the time when he
was only six years old. are. according
% himself. hazy memories of the quiet
horror which seized Simbirsk when it
! became known that the son of the
local director of public schools, the
student Alexander Ulianoff. brother
;Of the notorious Lenine. had been exc
euted for participation in the attempts
no assassinate Alexander III. who at
mat time had already squeezed Russia
TO the ground with all the colossal
: weight of his autocracy.
- And then he vividly remembers how
many of the first fellow pupils. his
playmates, the children of the working
classes. were by Alexander refused ad-
mission to high school
They are peasants. yet they are try
ing to study in the high SCHOOL, the
astonished czar remarked.
Such was the primary lesson taught
by the Little Father to his little sub
Sect. A. F. Kerensky.
Entirely different lessons were those
taught him by Mother Volga. The Volga
carried to the childs ear not only
''songs resembling a groan." but also
songs of freedom about the beloved
popular hero. Stenka Rain, who led a
peasant rebellion in the Volga territory
against the car in the seventeenth CEN
tury-the volga whose famous cliff is
located near Simbirsk. Who knows II
the words of this popular song did not
sink deep into the youthful soul of the
future first citizen of free Russia:
II there be a single man in all Russia
Who never availed himself Of injustice.
Who never oppressed the muzhik.
Who loved liberty one loves mother
And championed its cause, y
Let that man come forward and mount this clif
And against 1t let him press his sensitive ear
And the giant cliff will narrate to that bravadC
AL that Stenka had learned and thought.