The dawn in Russia

by Henry Woodd Nevinson

• Parties of Reform and Revolution, [73–77];
• in Odessa, [224];
• in Poland, [293–294]
• Peasants, congress of, [49];
• descriptions of, [33];
• hardships of, [87];
• home of, [88];
• charity of, [90];
• camping in railway-station, [131];
• of Little Russia, [212–214];
• in Baltic provinces, [262–281];
• in Poland, [289–291];
• deputies in St. Petersburg, [315];
• Parliamentary Party of, [316];
• in Winter Palace, [321–322];
• in Duma, [337–339]
• Petersburg, St., general strike in, [228];
• prepared for massacre, [229];
• manifesto to citizens of, [229];
• wholesale arrests in, [233], [238];
• fortress-prison in, [237];
• Kresty (Cross) prison in, [238], [326];
• Constitutional Democrats in, [244], [315], [318];
• revolutionary concert in, [255];
• Poles in, [282];
• opening of Duma in, [319]
• Peterhof, Tsar and family at, [316]
• Petrunkevitch, leader of Zemstvoists, [246];
• speech in Duma, [327]
• Plehve, Minister of Interior, [3];
• assassination of, [6];
• his policy towards workers, [43]
• Pleske, Minister of Finance, [3]
• Pobiedonostzeff, resignation of, [21];
• keeper of Russia’s Orthodoxy, [242], [331]
• Poland, demands Home Rule, [74], [295];
• position under Duma, [287];
• trade losses in, [288];
• strikes in, [289];
• price of land, rents, wages, population and education in, [290–291];
• Jews in, [294];
• Russian garrison in, [292];
• Political Parties in, [292–300];
• prejudices against Germany in, [295]
• Poles, dissensions among, [75], [282];
• disliked by Little Russians, [206–207];
• high official’s opinion of, [283–287];
• peasant life among, [288–290];
• cruelty of, [291];
• “learning to vote,” [294];
• number in Duma, [294]
• Police, activity of, [33], [34];
• danger from, [82];
• house of secret, [54];
• in disguise, [167–168];
• execution of chief of secret, [177–178];
• Diedulin, chief of, [243];
• break up meetings of Constitutionalists, [315], [318]
• Politicals, treatment of, [233–243];
• wholesale massacre of, [240];
• in exile, [243];
• in Warsaw, [299–300];
• rescue of, [312];
• amnesty demanded for, [325–327], [339]
• Potemkin, lover of Catherine II., [327]
• Potemkin, mutiny on board the, [221]
• Poverty, in St. Petersburg, [37–48];
• in Little Russia, [212–214];
• in Odessa, [223]
• Presna or Presnensky, manufacturing district, [182];
• revolution in, [183];
• bombardment of and slaughter in, [183–190];
• estimates of killed and wounded in, [190–191];
• methods of execution in, [191–193]
• Press, brief freedom of, [64–74].
• See [Newspapers].
• Prison, life of “political” in, [235];
• fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, [237];
• Kresty (Cross), [238];
• greetings to deputies from, [326];
• estimate of numbers in, [238]
• Punch, cartoon blacked out, [34]

• Redigers, Minister of War, [242]
• Revolutionists, hesitation among, [136–137];
• bombarded, [139–140];
• arrested and shot, [141];
• numbers estimated, [141–142];
• plan of action in Moscow, [145–147], [163];
• loot gun-shop, [156–157];
• private ambulance of, [158];
• sledge-drivers refuse aid to, [159];
• deprive officer of sword, [169];
• confiscate photographs, [171];
• passive bravery of, [172];
• last stand of, [174];
• call for volunteers, [175];
• girl leader of, [183];
• tear up railway-line, [183];
• slaughter of in Presnensky district, [183–194];
• women among, [199], [308];
• “dress rehearsal” of, [198];
• union among, [199], [308];
• propaganda in army of, [200], [298–299];
• need of money among, [201];
• shot at Kieff, [210];
• concert given for, [255–261];
• butchered in Baltic provinces, [262–281];
• persistence of, [308]
• Riga, revolt in, [78]
• Riots, in Moscow, [2], [112];
• of students, [7];
• in Poland, [13], [14];
• in Kieff, Warsaw, and Odessa, [21]
• Roditcheff, member of Duma, [339]
• Rostoff regiment, mutiny in, [101];
• proves its loyalty, [186]
• Russians, intelligence of, [69];
• home-life of nobility, [85–86];
• peasant life of, [87];
• democratic qualities of, [256–267];
• poverty among, [212–214];
• misery of, [307];
• persistence of, [308]

• Sakharoff, Minister of War, assassinated, [77]
• “Salt Town,” meetings at, [50], [51]
• Sassoulitch, Vera, as journalist, [67];
• last “political” tried by jury, [233]
• Saratoff, peasant member for, [339]
• Schlüsselberg, description of road to, [37], [230];
• prison turned into mint, [239–240]
• Schmidt, Lieutenant, leader of Sevastopol mutiny, [49];
• sentenced to be hanged, [310];
• shot, [311];
• body dug up and thrown into sea, [312]
• Schwanebach, Imperial Comptroller, [315]
• Semenoffsky Guards, employed in massacres with Cossacks, [186];
• distinguished by their zeal, [194];
• chosen to guard Winter Palace, [316]
• Sergius, Grand Duke, assassinated, [13];
• place of his death, [124]
• Sharpshooters in bell-tower of Strastnoi Convent, [153], [161]
• Shipoff, Minister of Finance, [241], [309]
• Siberia, still used for exiles, [243];
• Polish trade with, [288], [289]
• Sieczka, Vincentz, tortured, [311]
• Sipiaguine, Minister of Interior, assassinated, [2]
• Skallon, Governor-General in Warsaw, tries to seduce revolutionists, [300]
• Sobolevski, editor of Russian News, [111]
• Social Democrats, minimum programme of, [3];
• unbending attitude of, [4], [59];
• organ of, [65];
• strength of, [73];
• young girls among, [76];
• compared with Government, [231];
• in Poland, [296–298]
• Social Revolutionists, [74];
• member shoots Sakharoff, [77]
• Soldiers, return from war with Japan, [97–100], [307];
• how treated as reservists, [99–101];
• refuse to kill work-people, [2];
• mutiny, [101];
• propaganda among, [200], [298–299]
• Sollogub, Governor-General in Baltic provinces, reproached for mildness, [265]
• Soskice, David, translator and lecturer, [246]
• Spies, at teachers’ conference, [53];
• post and telegraph clerk protest against, [53–54];
• use of, [138]
• Spiridinova, Marie, tortured, outraged, avenged, [311]
• Stcheglovitoff, Minister of Justice, [315]
• Stepniak, supporter of Russian freedom, [2], [48]
• Stishinsky, Minister of Agriculture, [315]
• Stolypin, Minister of Interior, [315]
• Strastnoi bell-tower, sharpshooters placed in, [153], [161]
• Strikes, on railways, [18];
• throughout Russia, [19];
• in sympathy with Poland, [22];
• failure of second general strike, [23];
• result in factory villages, [38];
• under Russian laws, [43];
• as agents of abstinence, [47];
• of post and telegraph service, [49], [60], [61], [81], [114];
• in St. Petersburgh and Moscow, [101], [103], [132], [314];
• fund seized by Government, [104];
• on railway, [130];
• meeting at Aquarium, dispersed by troops and police, [136–138];
• effect on trade, [289];
• power of, [302];
• in Poland, Kieff, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, [314]
• Strikes (Central Committee of), distrusts Imperial manifestoes, [20–21];
• calls for military organization, [24];
• meets in Hall of Free Economics, [25–36];
• orders withdrawal of money from savings-banks, [77];
• President of, arrested, [78];
• members of, arrested, [80];
• new Council and Executive appointed, [80];
• manifesto to citizens, [229]
• Strikers, attack mail-cart, [101];
• dispersed, [102];
• demands of, [112];
• condemned by Novoe Vremya, [114];
• meet in Moscow Aquarium, [136];
• passive resistance of, [229–230]
• Struve, editor of Emancipation, [246]
• Sumsky Dragoons, brutality of, [193]
• Suvorin, editor of Novoe Vremya, his son among revolutionists, [68]
• Sytin Printing Works destroyed by Government, [181]

• Taurida Palace, given up to Duma, [327];
• guarded, [332]
• Times, Tolstoy’s protest in, [4];
• statistics quoted from, [240];
• financial figures quoted from, [309–310]
• Tolstoy, Demitri, Minister of Education, [241]
• Tolstoy, Leo, protests against war with Japan, [4];
• position among revolutionists of, [56];
• visit to, [91–96]
• Torture of prisoners, [192–195], [311]
• Toula, mutiny at, [2];
• typical town, [81]
• Trepoff, first Governor-General of St. Petersburg, [13];
• assistant Minister of Interior and Chief of Police, [14];
• dismissal demanded, [21];
• resigns, [22];
• regretted, [33];
• caricatured, [72];
• connected with Odessa massacres, [233];
• Master of Ceremonies, [319–320]
• Trepoff (the Elder), attempted assassination of, [233]
• Troubetzkoy, Prince Sergius, President of Moscow Zemstvo, inspires reform, [7], [246–248];
• sudden death of, [17];
• regretted, [110]
• Tsar, flees to Tsarkoe Selo, [13];
• promises reforms, [15], [19], [21], [22];
• withdraws promises, [22], [80], [103], [120], [121], [215];
• as forester, [213];
• builds palace for ex-mistress, [238];
• pleasant myths about, [243];
• meditates new Peace Conference, [308];
• issues Ukase on Fundamental Laws, [314];
• leaves Tsarskoe Selo for Peterhof, [316];
• enters St. Petersburg by river, [319];
• sprinkled with holy water, [323];
• reads address in Winter Palace, [325];
• flees back to Peterhof, [329]

• Unions, Trade, [104], [107]

• Vistula, dead bodies in, [300]
• “Vladimir’s Day,” or “Bloody Sunday,” [12], [319]
• Voiloshnikoff, chief of secret police, “executed,” [177–178]
• Vorobieff, Dr., murder of, [187]

• War, return of soldiers from, [97–100], [131];
• effect on Poland, [288–289]
• Warsaw, trade of, [288];
• political parties in, [293–299];
• prisoners in, [299–300];
• Governor-General’s offer to revolutionary Jewesses, [300]
• Winter Palace, massacre before, [11], [12];
• how guarded, [319];
• brilliant assembly in, [321–327]
• Witte, President of Committee of Ministers, [3], [241];
• deputation to, [18];
• replies, [19];
• distrusted by Liberals, [22];
• fatherly appeal to workers, [22];
• caricatured, [72];
• leaders of finance petition to, [103];
• character discussed, [110];
• whining of, [202], [241];
• afraid of Constitutional Democrats, [244];
• his affectation of liberalism, [308];
• resigns, [313];
• his removal makes Duma possible, [318];
• in Council of Empire, [331]
• Workmen, demand universal sufferage, [18], [19];
• dress of, [26];
• patience of, [28];
• first council of delegates, [37];
• homes of, [38–48];
• locked out, [40];
• hours of labour, [42];
• wages, [44];
• standard of food and work, [45], [114];
• amusements of, [47];
• connection with land, [48];
• shot down, [81];
• equality of their women, [26];
• their unions in Moscow, [105];
• “living in,” [113];
• wages increased, [114];
• quarters in order, [232];
• growing importance of, [288];
• in Poland, [289];
• their candidates for Duma imprisoned, [311];
• only fifteen in Duma, [337]

• Zemstvos, recommend reforms, [2];
• send petition of Rights, [7]
• Zemstvoists, meet in secret, [6];
• discuss promised Duma, [16];
• draw up programme of political aims, [16–17];
• debate Witte’s character, and vanish, [110]
• Zilliacus, writer on struggle for Russian freedom, [2]

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