The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-14

Petrograd, Wednesday, April H. Via London, April l3.-The arrival in Petrograd today of Mme. Katherina Breshkoyskaya was the occasion of a dramatic gathering of veterans of the former revolutionary and terrorist times to give her an enthusiastic and emotional welcome
 All Petrograd, in fact, turned out to acclaim the grandmother of the revolution" on her homecoming from Siberia. where she had spent 4i of her g years in exile. X vast crowd waving red flags and singing the Mar seillaise, extended down the west end of the Noysky Prospekt. When the Associated Press correspondent ar rived he found the crowd trying to storm the station. 10 which were ad- mitted only veteran niailists and a deputation from the ministry of jus tice headed by Minister Of Justice Kerensky, together with delegations of welcome from Petrograd Moscow and Dorpat universities and high schools
 At the suggestion of M Keronsky the reception committee adopted a plan unique in Russian history for the welcoming of Mme Breshkoykaya "a plan symbohzirg +usias transi- tion from autoeracy to democracy. The welcome took place in the gors- eous suite in the railway station called the imperial reception rooms, which under the old regime were used only for the reception of royal personages The large drawing room in this suite, which had been the scene of meetings of the worlds most powerful monarchs, was nov the gathering place of the worlds most extreme democrats, republicans and socialists. Around the room were scores of baskets and wroaths os flowers, the scarlet tulip predominant ing-a flower which bids tair 10 be come the floral emblem of the new Russia. The flowers bore various in- scriptions, such as to our dear grand. mother" "to Russias martyr hero. inc"
 Among the revolutionary veterans the correspondent found Mime. Vera Figner. Mile. Vera Zassulich, the former duma member, pianuich, and Prof Nicholas Morosoff Mme Fig ner spent 20 years in jail. but was re. leased some years ago through a whim of Nicholas H. after he had been pleased with the singing of her brother at a concert Under her heavy fur cap she looked like the typical heroine of a nihilist romance Beside her stood Mile Zassulich first among the most extreme women terrorists under Alexander H. who 3f years ago, then a slight pretty girl of an aristocratic family. shot and dangerously wounded General Trep off, the despotic governor of Petro grad, in vengeance for his reputed torturiug of political prisoners. By an irony of the revolution, General Trepoft's son, former Premier Trep off. today is prisoner in the fort ress of St Peter and st. Paul
 Conversng with Mile Zassulich was NJ Pianuich, who sat in the sec
 oud duma under Premier Stolypin and was sentenced 10 death on a trumped up charge of conspiracy to murder Emperor Nicholas and was led through the streets of Petrograd in chains
 The Associated Press correspon- dent met Prof Norosoff,, famous chemist and commentator who was suspected of advising the conspira tors who made the bomb that killed Alexander IT, Prof MorosoH for 23 years never left his cell in the SchlusseIburgh fortress, He was re leased after the revolution of 1905 but was again imprisoned a year later. "Ten your people the revolution