Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-15
RUSSIA WELCOMES
TERR0RISTS HOME
Grandmother Of Revolution"
and Other Exiles Return
< to Meet Ovation.
INTERESTING PBRsoNAaEs

Petrograd, April ll.-(Wednesda
Via London, April l4.-The arrival
in Petrograd today Of Madame Cath
crime Breshkovskaya was the occasion
of q dramatic gathering of veterans
Of the former revolutionary and ter
rorist times to give her an enthusi-
astic and emotional welcome.
Ali Petrograd, in fact, turned out to
acclaim the grandmother OF the
revolution" on her home coming from
Siberia where she had spent forty
four>of her 70 years in exile. A vast
crowd wx1ing red flags and sing
ing the Marseillaise extended down
the west end of the Nevsky Prospekt
as far as the Nikolaievsk railway
station. When The Associated Press
correspondent arrived he found the
crowd trying to storm the station to
which were admitted only veteran MI
hilists and a deputation from the
ministry OF justice, headed by Min
lister Of Justice Kerensky, together
with delegations of welcome from Pc
trograd, Moscow and Dorpat univer-
cities and high schools.
In Meeting Place>o Royalty.
At the suggestion OF NJ. ,Kerensky
the reception committee adopted a
plan unique in Russian history for the
welcoming OF Madame Breshkovskaya
"a plan symbolizing Russia's transit
ton from autocracy to democfacy
The welcome took place in the gor-
geous suite in the railway station
called the imperial reception rooms
which under the old regime was used
only for royal personages.
The large drawing room IN this
suit, which had been the scene Of
meetings of the worlds most power.
full monarchs, was now the gathering
place of the worlds most extreme
democrats, republicans and socialists
Around the room were scores OF
baskets and wreaths Of flowers the
scarlet tulip here dominating
flower which bids fair to become the
floral emblem of the new Russia.
Finds Terrorists of Old,
Among the revolutionary veteran:
the correspondent found MADAME
Vera Figner, Mile Vera Zassulich, the
former Duma member Pianuich ane
Prof. Nicholas Morosoff. Madame
Figner spent twenty years in Jail, bu
was released some years ago through
whim of Nicholas ii after he hae
been pleased with the singing OF hel
brother at a concert.
Beside her stood Mile. Zassulich
first among the most extreme woman
terrorists under Alexander II, whe
thirty-six years ago, then slight
pretty girl of an ahstocratic tamil,
shot and dangerously wounded Gen
eral Trepoff, the despotic governo
of Petrograd, in vengeance for his re
puted torturing of political prisoners
By an irony of the revolution Genera
frepoff's, son, former Premier Ire
poff, is today prisoner in the fort
\, ress OF St. Peter and St. Paul. .
(,onversingAW with Mile. Zassulicl
was M. Pianuich who sat in the sec
ond Duma under Premier Stolypil
and was sentenced to death on
trumped up charge OF conspiracy II
murder Emperor Nicholas and wa
led through the streets of Petrogra'
in chains.
The correspondent met Prof. Nor
osoff, a famous chemist and common
l-tator of the Apocalypse, who wa
suspected of advising the conspira
tors who made the bomb that kille'
Alexander III. Prof. Morosoff TO
twenty-three years never left his eel
in the Schlusselberg fortress.
Tell your people the revolution
this time has achieved final and If
revocable triumph" he said to the cor
respondent today. Avs