tide of the movement; it will rise higher and higher, embracing ever wider circles of the people, and the hour is not far off when autocracy will be laid low, as it was in Western Europe so many generations ago. My flight from Siberia has taken place at a moment in our history which is full of hope for the future. In Western Europe also great changes have taken place during the last two decades, though none, perhaps, so significant as in Russia. In Germany the special laws against Social Democrats have been repealed; and this has not only made a great difference to our party, but has altered the internal life of the nation in a striking manner. In one respect, however, Germany has made no advance: she is still ready to lend her aid to Russian despotism. Just in the same manner as I was arrested and delivered over to the Russian Government eighteen years ago, though guilty of no offence against German law, so a compatriot of mine has suffered a like fate even while I have been writing this memoir. The Russian student Kalayev was arrested in Mysolowitz (1902) without any warrant, and handed over to the Russian gendarmerie; since which he has not been heard of. The Prussian police have in no way altered their methods during the years that have flown; but to the credit of the German people I must admit, that with the exception of official journals, the entire press was most indignant over this complaisance of the German Government towards the Russian. THE END INDEX Administrative methods, 34, 36, 65, 293; “politicals” exiled by, 105, 107, 285, 326; institution of banishment by, viii Agàpov, Stephen, 182 Aigùn, 329 Akatoui, new prison at, 292; order for the removal of prisoners to, 294 Aksha, 193 Alexander I., vi Alexander II., vii; attempts against his life, 10, 11, 117, 219; result of his assassination, 230; mode of his assassination, 264 Alexander III., his policy, 130; surmises as to his possible assassination, 230; attempt on his life, 259; manifesto pardoning convicts, 307; his death, 316 Alexandrovo, 46 Alexandròvskaya, plot to undermine station at, 269 Alexei-Ravelin tower of the Fortress of Peter and Paul, 219, 260, 262 Alexèiev, mayor of Tchita, 174 “Alleviation, time of,” 236 Alphabetical code used in communications between prisoners, 51 n. _Amur Gazette, The_, 341 _Amur Province, The_, 341 Amur, Province of the, 328; under martial law, 337 Amur River, 328; massacre on banks of, 334-337 Antònov, his execution, 104 n., 188 n. Anùtchin, Governor-General, 189 n. Archangel, 285 Armfeld, Natalia, 206; death, 207 _Artèl_, or union, the criminals’, 155 n., 160, 177-180; system of, in Kara prison, 221 Aschenbrenner, Captain, 115 n. Asia and Europe, boundary post between, 147 Axelrod, 16, 17 n., 357 Axelrod, Frau, 2, 28 Baikal, Lake, 195 Balagansk, 187