The Red Reign the True Story of An Adventurous Year in Russia
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It means to dispose of each minute of life in such a way that the cause shall gain. M. Luchenovsky was succeeded by a wise and humane man, who valued human life, even that of simple peas- ants. In the province of Tamboff Cossacks ceased to riot through the villages, looting at will and preying upon the helpless inhabitants. The taking of this one life, at the sacrifice of her own, ended for the time, at least, an era of darkness in TambofF and saved the honor of untold women and the lives of ma...ny. The two officers who so foully abused her went un- punished so far as the Russian authorities were con- cerned, but after the lapse of a few weeks Abramov was found dead in the street one night, and several weeks later Zhdanov 's lifeless body was also discovered. Hundreds of men in Tamboff had wished and prayed for the death of Luchenovsky. But only a girl dared. Whether that girl had hysteria (as some asserted), or not, is of small consequence. Joan of Arc was a neuras- thenic. That night, after my visit to Spiradonova, when dark had settled over Tamboff, I stumbled down a littered street not more than a hundred yards from the prison to a poor little cottage, once painted red, now weather- A VISIT TO MARIE SPIEADONOVA 175 worn and shabby.
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