Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-22

all hope and faith In the future and
ended their lives while students OF the
universities OF Petrograd, Moscow.
kiefr and Odessa. Others were sent to
Siberia AS revOlutionists
Chief Inspector Kercnsky. like Di-
rector OStroumoT. was scholar of
renown. Before his appointment to his
high position in Turkestan he had been
professor OF philology and high school
director In the province Of Kazan. Tall
broad -shouldered and heavily built, he
walked with the unsteady gait of n sea-
man on land. A very spare mustache
adorned his broad but Intelligent face
His wife was delicate. we'll educated
ana rehned German Russian lady.
whose maiden name had been Adler
Besides tho two sons. Alexander and
Fedor, tho couple had two daughters
The elder daughter. in 1901. mar
ricd the city architect OF Tashkend
and died two years later. The young
er went to Petrograd to study mcdi-
cine ana Is now successful prac-
tictng physician there. Tho family
lived quietly.
Fcdor kerensky, tho younger son
OF tho chief inspector, was very
quiet, somewhat clumsy young man
and resembled his father. while the
older. Alexander. had inherited tho
delicate graceful figure. the keen in
tcllect and tho vivacity OF his lovely
mother. At the school festivals, which
were always attended by tho most
artstocratic and exclusive society Of
the city. no invariably played a bril-
liant and prominent part. He was a
.,reiess graceful dancer. an orator Of
great force and magnetism and an anna
teur actor OF no mean talent. His in
tellectual face. his conversational DOW
ers and his renned manners won all
hearts for him. although he was very
reserved and did not bestow his friend
ship easily upon anybody.
ITO the iron school discipline,
against which many OF his comrades
Enashed their teeth. Alexander sub
mttted without n murmur He was a
model student in every respect and
carried off the highest prizes and
honors every year. but this did not
make him stuck up Even in the year
before his graduation he still served
humbly as an altar boy and sexton in
the college chapel
His triumph as an actor in Gorrol,s
comedy. The Revisor.' was the talk
OF the town for months He made
another great hit with a lecture on
Western European feudalism This es-
say surprised even his teachers, as II
showed immense historical knowledge
and critical judgment not common
with young students.
in the class room Alexandcr's de-
pertinent was very correct His in
Innate friends he selected very wisely
They were all intelligent. studious and
refined young men like himself
tried to win his friendship. but did
not succeed. Although he always was
very polite and listened TO me attcn-
lively when l spoke to him, l felt
that he distrustcd me. probably on ac.
count of my friendship with Director
Ostroumofr.
After watching him for some time
! gained the impression That his SEEM
inEly willing and enthusiastic submits
sion TO the orthodox school rules was
mask. and that in the bottom OF
his heart he hated the rcactionary ty-
ranny more than most OF his comrades
did.
I'm 1892 he graduated with the high
est honors and went to the University
of Pctrograd. where no studied phil
oloGy and philosophy and then took up
law. l left Tashkend and returned to
Germany in 1900 few years later /
learned that my former pupil had be-
come very famous attorney. After
his election to the Dumn wrote him,
congratulatinR him and wishing him
still greater success. In his answer no