Show most hated man in russia is dead but not at hands of his enemies six attempts had been made on hi life within the past three years in one instance a man who resembled him being shot st petersburg general dmitri pe od commandant of the imperial palace died at 6 clock sat arday evening in his ellla at Peter hol of ang na ls general whose name was indelibly linked with reactionary re pres slon in russia was a remarkable man he was a natural despot a ty rant by inclination education and con diction he was one of those men who have constantly appeared in rus sian history just at the time when con dillons were most promising for put ting an end to despotism to turn rus sian rulers from liberalism to reaction it was he who became the guiding spirit of the reaction after nicholas II 11 had issued his manifesto in the fall of 1905 promising the people a share n the government holding the po j firtion of master of the palace la league with the court intriguers who were determined to restore the old regime he constantly had the emperor s car o 0 n in all six actual attempts p on a the life of general have been made within three years and only last july general of the headquarters was assassinated at Peter hot by a ter who believed he was firing upon on general would have been 1 years old in december several months he had been suffering from a heart affection and asthmatic troubles and some time ago was forced to abandon a large amount of his routine work |