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made at one p. nj. Saturday, and
Immediately the entire city went into
official mourning and the blackboard
cred red flags were raised at half
mast over public buildings, and in
thousands of private houses the blaz-
ing emblem of the revolution, bordered
in black was raised.
An impressive state funeral is being
planned by the government
Son of a Peasant.
Mikhail Vassilievitch Frunze was
born in 1885, at Pischpek, the chief
town of the district of Semirechinsk
(Republic of Turkestan). His father,
a Russian Moldov, was peasant from
the district of Zakharievsk, in the gov
eminent of Odessa; his mother was
peasant from Voronesh. After his
father finished his term of military
service in Turkestan, he became
hospital attendant in the municipal
service.
Frunze began his studies in pri-
mary school, subsequently entering
the college of vierny (now Almata),
where he proved an excellent student.
His father having died, leaving the
family in poor circumstances. the
young Mikhail at the age of twelve
took to giving private lessons as
means of livelihood.
Expelled from Capital.
Entering the Polytechnic Institute
of st. Petersburg (now Leningrad) in
1904, Frunze began to take part in
the revolutionary movement, working
first in the student circules, then in
the workers circles, as a social-demo-
crat. He took part in the November
demonstrations in st. Petersburg,
which led to his arrest and subsequent
expulsion from the capital.
At the beginning of 1905, Frunze
worked in Moscow, then in the Ivan
ovo-voznessensk factory in Vladimir
During the party split into men
sheviks and Bolsheviks, Comrade
Frunze deliberately took the side of
the Leninists. In December, 1905, he
took part in the instruction at Mos
COW. In 1906, as a delegate from the
party committee Of Voznessensk, he
participated in the Third and Fourth
Congresses of the party at Stockholm.
Faces Death; Prison; Escapes.
In 1907, he was arrested at Chovia,
where he had been working under the
name of Arsene, and sentenced to a
long term of Imprisonment. Brot be-
fore the magistrates for belonging to
the social-democratic party, he was
accused of having offered armed re-
sistance to the police, and sentenced
to four years hard labor.
After being tried five times in con-
nection with this affair, during which
two verdicts declared for the death
penalty, Frunze was finally condemn
ed to an additional six years. hard
labor He served five and half years
in the central prison of Vladimir,
then for two years in the prison of
Nikolaev, and finally in the Alexan-
drovsk prison.
Goes Into Army.
Liberated in 1915, but sent to the
district of Verkholensk in Irkutsk,
Frunze was soon arrested again for
creating an organization of the de-
portees. He succeeded, however, in
escaping, and towards the end of 1915,
turned up at Chita under the illegal
name of Vassilenko. Here he collab-
GRATED on the editorial staff Of the
Bolshevik weekly, The Oriental Re
view. Discovered by the police, he
escaped into European Russia, where,
under the name of Mikhailov, he en-
tered the Pan-Russian Union Of Fem
stvOs, and worked on the western