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At times when the Czar did not dare to trust his regular soldiers to enforce order in Petrograd or Moscow, for fear the men would refuse to fire upon their own relatives in the mob, the Cossacks could always be counted upon to ride their horses fearlessly through the people, sabering to right and left those who refused to disperse.
Then there was the Admiral's step in the hall and Archibald was on his feet, staring in the fire when the little man came in. "Any letters for Charles to mail?" "No, Grandfather." The Admiral limped away. Becky stood up. Cope turned from the fire. "If it doesn't rain to-morrow, I'll show America to Olga of Petrograd." They smiled at each other, and Becky held out her hand. He bent and kissed it.
In order to discourage the futile anti-British diatribes in the German Press, Bülow declared in the Reichstag that in no quarter was there an intention to intervene against England. There are grounds for questioning the sincerity of this utterance; for the Russian statesman, Muraviev, certainly desired to intervene, as did influential groups at Petrograd, Berlin, and Paris.
They sacked Riga and Reval, they overran all the Eastern portions of Russia Courland, Livonia, Esthonia; they moved into the rich grain country of Southern Russia, the Ukraine; they landed from their ships and took Finland, wiping out the liberties of that splendid people. They were at the gates of Petrograd, and the Bolshevik government was forced to flee to Moscow.
About this time the lack of food in Petrograd, the result largely of speculation and "cornering the market," had become so serious that the government thought it wise to call in several regiments of Cossacks to reinforce the police. These Cossacks are wild tribesmen of the plains who enjoy a freedom not shared by any other class in Russia.
Petrograd, some of them at the Military College at Turin, and others again at a Military College which had been established at Sofia. He was the chief Professor of the Military College at Sofia, and judging by the standard he set, the Military College must have reached a high degree of efficiency.
Once his enemies did actually succeed in having him expelled from Petrograd for a while, but immediately the czarevitch became critically ill and during his absence the czarina was almost continuously hysterical.
At the new year reception held in the palace he was most severely humiliated by Rodzianko, the president of the Duma, who, when Protopopoff approached him with extended hand, swung his back to him, causing a sensation all over the country. At another time, when he entered the rooms of the aristocratic club in Petrograd, of which he was a member, all the other members present walked out.
They also lost, it was claimed at Petrograd, 1,000 guns, more than two-thirds of their available artillery. The Russian newspaper correspondents described horrible scenes on the battlefields abandoned by the Austro-German forces in Galicia. "Streams," said one eyewitness, "were choked full with slain men, trodden down in the headlong flight till the waters were dammed and overflowing the banks.
Well, I wanted you in Petrograd you fascinated me; that was all, and if then, after being with us, you had come to know too much and something had happened to you, I would, of course, have been sorry, but, how shall I say it? Not too much.
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