rostovsky

Updated: June 5, 2025

I was told by an eye-witness that on one occasion he so savagely flogged a little boy who had ventured to hang on behind the consular carriage that a Turkish gendarme intervened. One day he lashed an Albanian soldier. The man waited his opportunity and shot Rostovsky dead on the main road near the Consulate.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

In August M. Rostovsky, the Russian Consul at Monastir, had been murdered. There was nothing political in the affair. The Russian had imagined the land was already his, and that he was dealing with humble mouzhiks. He carried a heavy riding-whip and used it when he chose.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle