The famous October manifesto--Skepticism of Russian people toward promise of Constitution--Difficulties placed in way of honest voting--Czar’s insincerity and duplicity--Fundamental and exceptional laws--Ministerial change on eve of Duma--St. Petersburg possessed by troops--The Winter Palace spectacle--The throne speech--Disappointment of deputies--“Amnesty! Amnesty!”--“The first shot”--Make-up of first Duma--First session--Zeal of representatives--Hostile attitude of government--Work of Duma--Governmental policy of obstruction--Dissolution--The Viborg manifesto--The present peril--The promise of the future in the light of the attitude of the Czar. CHAPTER X. A CONSPIRATIVE MEETING 207 A member of the military organization--Kronstadt--Revolutionary headquarters among the soldiers and sailors--A conspirative gathering--Smuggling forbidden literature--A surprise--Disguised as a Russian sailor--A thrilling experience--An inspiring episode--Shadowed!--Flight--Plan of escape--Capture deferred. CHAPTER XI. THE KRONSTADT UPRISING 223 Kronstadt on the eve of mutiny--Influences encouraging uprising--Make-up of the garrison--Wild rumors--A grand plan for general army and navy uprising--A successful beginning--Silence--A momentous telegram--A sudden signal--Mutiny--Trapped!--Slaughter--Illuminating lessons of the Kronstadt fiasco--The terrible cost in life and liberty. CHAPTER XII. GOVERNMENTAL TERRORISM 237 Arrival in Bielostok--First impressions--Stories of the injured--The crucifix as a weapon of death--The hospital fired upon--Children victims--Failure of government to place responsibility--Mass of evidence proving governmental complicity in massacres--Other massacres officially instigated--Prince Urusoff’s speech--The assassination of Professor Hertzenstein--A celebrated Moscow physician murdered--Warsaw horrors--Upon whom rests the responsibility?--Arrest of Pasha--Shooting a girl in prison--Bureaucracy guilty of murder and assassination--Placing the responsibility on the Czar--The arch-terrorist and assassin of Russia. CHAPTER XIII. AMID WARSAW CONTRASTS 265 Seething Poland--Governmental lawlessness--Overwhelming little Poland by sheer force of numbers--Twice over the Polish frontier--A panic of Warsaw Jews--Russian oppression--A nervous populace--Campaign to exterminate Warsaw police--Hopeless plight of latter--A pathetic incident--Where poverty stalks--Effect of era of misery and chaos upon Warsovians--Traffic in white slaves--Daily occurrences--A Warsaw hospital--Chiaroscuro in the Polish capital--Parties of Poland--Poles traditional revolutionists--Hope and optimism temperamental characteristics of the Polish people. CHAPTER XIV. AMONG THE MUZHIKS 287