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Show GRAIMOTH I OF REVOLUTION Famous Woman Greeted by Petrograd on Her Return From Siberia PETROGRAD, Wednesday, April 11, via London, April 13, 4:15 p. m. The arrival in Petrograd today of Madame Catherine Breshkovskaya was the occasion oc-casion of a dramatic gathering of veterans vet-erans of the former revolutionary and terrorist times to give her an enthusiastic enthu-siastic and emotional welcome. All Petrograd, In fact, turned out to acclaim the "grandmother of the revolution" revo-lution" on her homecoming from Siberia, Si-beria, whore she had spent forty-four of her seventy-three years in exile. A vast crowd, waving red flags and singing sing-ing the Marseillaise, extended down the west end of the Nevsky Prospect as far as the NIkolaievsk railway station. sta-tion. When the Associated Press correspondent cor-respondent arrived he found the crowd trying to storm the station, to which were admitted only veteran Nihilists and a deputation from the ministry of justice, ..eaded by Minister of Justice Jus-tice Kerensky. together with delegations delega-tions of welcome from Petrograd, Moscow Mos-cow and Dorpat universities and high schools. Royal Welcome. At the suggestion of M. Kerensky the reception committee adopted a plan unique in Russian history for the welcoming of Madame Breshkovskaya a plan symbolizing Russia's transition transi-tion from autocracy to democracy. The welcome took place 'in the gorgeous suite in the railway station called the Imperial reception rooms, which under! the old regime were used only for the) reception of royal personages. The large drawing room of this suite, j which had oen the scene of meetings of the world's most powerful mon- archs, was now the gathering place of the world's most extreme Democrats, ' Republicans and Socialists. Around the room were scores of baskets and wreaths of flowers, the scarlet tulip predominating a flower which bids fair to become the floral emblem of the new Russia. Veterans Meet Again. Among the revolutionary veterans the correspondent found Mme. Vera FIgner, Mile. Vera Zassulich, the former for-mer duma members, Dianuich and Professor Pro-fessor Cholas Moorsoff. Mme. Figner spent twenty years In jail, but was released re-leased some years ago through a whim of Nicholas II, after he had been pleased with the singing of her brother broth-er at a concert. Beside her stood Mile. Zassulich, firs among the most extreme women terrorists under Alexander II, who, thirty-six years ago, thpn a slight, pretty pret-ty girl of an aristocratic, family, shot and dangerously wounded General Tre-poff, Tre-poff, the despotic governor of Petrograd. Petro-grad. in vengeanec for his reputed tdr-turing tdr-turing of political prisoners. By an irony of the revolution General Tre-poff's Tre-poff's son, former Premier Trepoff, is j today a prisoner in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. , Once Sentenced to Death. Conversing with Mile. Zassulich was M. Planuich, who sat in the second duma under Premier Stolypin and was sentenced to death on a trumped-up charge of conspiracy to murder Emperor Em-peror Nicholas and was led through the street of Petrograd in chains. The Associated Press correspondent met Professor Morosoff, a famous chemist and commentator of the Apocalypse, Apoc-alypse, who was suspected of advising advis-ing the conspirators who made the j bomb that killed Alexander II. Profes-I sor Morosoff for twenty-three years never left his cell in the Schlussel-j burg fortress. "Tell your people the revolution this time has achieved a final and irrevocable irrevo-cable triumph." he said to the correspondent corre-spondent today. As the train arrived the crowd again j attempted to storm the station, crying "Let us see grandmother." The militia j quieted them, explaining the danger of J 1 a crush and assuring them they would be allowed to participate in the wel- come of Madame Breshkovskaya, who was eager to see all her "grandchildren" "grandchil-dren" and be seen by them. |