The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-01-31
Grandmother 0fThe
Russian Revolution
Brief Sketch Of Life Of Wonderful
Woman Who Devoted Her Lite To
Uplifting The Russian People
Says BOlSheviSm Must Go

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jannuar IS
ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
Cathrine Breshk o Breshkovskayia,
known as the Grandmother of the
Russian Revolution" and on her way
from Russia to Washington, has spent
so of the rs years of her life work
ing for, what she believed to be, the
betterment of her native country.
Thirty of these years she has spent
in various Russian prisons, and as a
political exile in the bleak Siberian
penal institutions.
Born of well to do and educated
parents, she early evinced an ardent
interest in the condition of the peo-
pie about her. Their ignorance and
her the determination to do what she
could for their betterment, and this
has been the keynote Of her efforts
ever since. Her activity was unre-
hitting and of a practical kind, in
Guiding lectures and the raising Of
money for the purpose of education.
AS an anti-imperialist, she was in
the United States on a lecture tour
during 1905. When the first revolu-
ton broke out in Russia at that time
she Immediately cancelled all her en-
gagements and returned to that coun-
try to render what aid she could to
the movement.
Again she came to America just
prior to the outbreak of the great wal
and lectured in all of the larger cit
les Of the country, including New
York, Chicago and San Francisco.
With Russia embroiled, she believed
the situation there again demanded
her presence. In the general arrest
by the government of the Gar of all
those who were suspected of having
revolutionary tendencies, Nine.
Breshkovskayia was included and de-
ported to Siberia.
Her liberation came with the down
fall of the Romanoff dynasty. All
political exiles were set free and ask
ed to return. Roads leading out of
Siberia were filled with these releas-
ed prisoners. AS a mark of special
attention, Nine. Breshkovskayia was
provided with a special train. Hers
was a triumphal return to Petrograd.
AS she passed through its streets
crowds were lined up to do her hon.
age while little children strewed her
pathway with flowers.
Then followed the days when Pre-
mier Kerensky was endeavoring to
bring order out of chaos. To his
cause Nine. Breshkovskayia gave ev-
cry ounce of her effort and support.
With the downfall of the Kerensky
regime and the rise of Bolshevism IN
der the leadership of Lenine and
Trotsky, for which she had no toler-
alton, Nine. BreshkOvskayia disap-
appeared from public view. Many
rumors of her assassination OF death
were current.
In an interview accredited to her
while in Japan, on the way to this
country, she is reported to have said:
Neither Bolshevik nor monarchist
can rule Russia. An elected govern
ment is our hope, the people never
will consent to anything but the on
stituent assembly. The Bolsheviks
beyond the Urals and the monarch
lists who now are in power at Omsk
must 60"
Nine. Breshkovskayia has many
friends in this country as the result
of her previous visits. They are pro-
fessors, social workers and men and
women who were students when h
was in this country on her first visit
thirteen years ago. She knows Jane
Adams and has lived in Hull House.
One of her early American friends
was Mr.. Arthur Billiard, now head of
the Russian division of the American
Committee on Public Information.