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Updated: May 11, 2025
Of the number captured, there were three who had seconded Podoloff during the discussion at the inn, the previous Sunday afternoon. The remainder were to be exiled, because the Governor, on Basilivitch's recommendation, deemed them dangerous. A good day's work, Basilivitch!
We will remove the brats from their parents' influence and send them to the army, where they will soon become loyal soldiers and faithful Catholics. Bring me the names of the moujiks who supported Podoloff in his rebellion. I shall send them to Siberia to reflect on the uncertainty of human aspirations. Now, go! Here is a rouble for you.
The passion of an angry and enslaved people had for the moment broken its bonds, and the tumult could not be quelled by mere words. "See!" cried Podoloff, emboldened by his success. He sprang upon a table and tore a paper from his pocket. "Yesterday I went to Kharkov to sell some cattle. I found that the people there had already organized.
"And for that they rob us of our money and our liberty," retorted Podoloff, hotly. "Ask Simon Schefsky there, how much he owes to our gracious Governor, who last year took from him his pretty daughter, that her charms might while away his weary hours in Alexandrovsk." "He is a tyrant!" shouted several women, their rough cheeks tingling at the recollection of recent indignities.
"Utter a single cry," he said, "and you are a corpse." Resistance was useless. Podoloff, in spite of his pleading, was seized and his hands bound behind him.
The village elder, a venerable and worthy man, arose and sought to check the fiery eloquence of the orator. "Be silent, Podoloff," he commanded. "It is not for you to speak against the existing order of things. Your father and your father's father were content to live as you do, and were none the worse for it. By what right do you complain?"
They have sent a petition to the Czar, asking for greater liberties. Here is a copy. Let me read it to you," and, amid a silence as profound as the occasional bark of a dog or the wail of a child would permit, Podoloff read the following: "Russia, O Czar, confided to thee supreme power, and thou wert to her as a God upon earth. What hast thou done?
Silence fell over the disputants. The question had been asked, alas! how often, but the answer had not yet been forthcoming. "Let us arise and organize," at length cried the first speaker, one Podoloff by name, who was known as a man of great daring and more than average intelligence, and who had upon more than one occasion been unconsciously very near having himself transported to Siberia.
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