| Show WHO MME IS I 1 the russian lady who for writing a letter to the czar Is now a siberian convict is a woman with a history her ifer were sere aristocrats of the highest blood and her education was made to accord with the inhuman ideas which in the nature of things controlled edi nt rolled their lives A passion for literature and the inevitable modifications of both mind and heart which attend such pursuits very soon made a breach between her manner of reasoning and that of her parents and at awen ty five tl alie is rupture become so great as to cause a separation from her family since then she has been one of the literary pivots of her country her iler writings and translations are numerous and of a high order and have won for lier her in spite of her progressive gres sive views a place of honor in the intellectual circles of st petersburg society sho was one of the founders of an institution for the higher education of women which has since received immense contributions from her in means and personal influence from the sale of her books and from other sources her income was very large yet she lived in plain style anade and devoted the surplus of her wealth to the elevation of her sex but the difficulties cu aties under which ebe she labored may be easily imagined from the sorrowful doom which her last bold stroke for the cause of liberty called down upon her however Ilo wever and bously modest were her tier efforts for the amelioration of the condition of the women of her country her efforts were invariably frustrated by the tile intervention tion of the russian government the reviews to which she contributed were in spite of their moderate tone suppressed by the police an and d the university class classes e a which had produced the young but heroic lady doctors who received during the russo turkish campaign a warm from lie ills czar alexander 11 II were dissolved by order of the czar alexander III thus seeing the tle best endeavors defeated and the adoption by the government of a series of measures which would caugh russia to revert to the dark days of nicholas I 1 she was led to question whether after alap all the modest but persistent pera laten daily work she had advocated all her life would in such a country as russia bring about any good results the disappointment caused bythe by the wasted efforts of more than a anar ter of a it century of sustained struggle was so profound that at times alme was tempted to commit suicide Bu icide As however she could not consider suicide in any other light I 1 I 1 1 takiji I I 1 1 J 49 I 1 7 r than an act of cowardice ehe she resolved to make a supreme effort and this without any th thought ought of its pro bibie consequence upon herself here elf her iler character rendered ren Jered it impossible for her to attempt any revolutionary act anil and phe knew know little or nothing of the russian revolutionary movement iro list pacific and gea gen ie le character chalai ter inspired her with an instinctive dread of all violence it waa was precisely because she t foresaw bresaw with horror the catastrophes likely soon to occur and because she believed that there was still time to prevent them by the judicious concession conces Bion of reforms that bhe she resorted to the political crime of addressing a letter to the czar TUB tim CARNIVAL baft city the manufacturing city the railroad city the tile electric city the residence city all these and more rolled into one ogden |
