"To liberate one's country!" she
said. "It is terrible even to utter
those words, they are so grand."
Turgenev: "On the Eve."

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CONTENTS

Dedication
ForewordPAGE
Under Nicholas I.[7]
Scenes from Serfdom[15]
Explorations[23]
The Nihilists[29]
The Terrorists[36]
Sophia Perovskaya[43]
The Fortress of Peter and Paul[54]
Brothers[62]
The Open Gate[71]
From the Printing Press[82]
In Later Life[106]
The Historian of the Revolution [120]