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Updated: June 19, 2025
The Russian people, he said, were now in the same condition as in the time of Alexis, the father of Peter the Great, when Stenka Razin, a robber chieftain, placed himself at the head of a terrible insurrection.
They declared, in all seriousness, that he had been wont to navigate upon a felt rug, like the one we had seen in Piotr's cottage; and they disputed over the exact shade of meaning contained in the words which he was in the habit of using when he summoned a rich merchant vessel to surrender as his prize. Evidently, Stenka was no semi-epic, mythical hero to them, but a living reality.
At a later period the Don Cossacks twice raised formidable insurrections first under Stenka Razin , and secondly under Pugatchef and during the war between Peter the Great and Charles XII. of Sweden the Zaporovians took the side of the Swedish king. The Government naturally strove to put an end to this danger, and ultimately succeeded.
It will be remembered that Bakounin developed a kind of robber worship. The bandit leaders Stenka Razin and Pougatchoff appeared to him as national heroes, popular avengers, and irreconcilable enemies of the State.
The emancipated serf had shown himself incapable of "prolonged revolutionary activity," but there was reason to believe that he was, like his forefathers in the time of Stenka Razin and Pugatcheff, capable of rising and murdering his oppressors.
The snow fell in large, cold, soft, feather-like flakes. St. Martin's Summer was past, to be succeeded by the advent of another earthly joy the first white covering of snow, when it is so delicious to follow the fresh footprints of the beasts, a rifle in hand. Legend says that from the Sokolovaya Mountain called the Mountain of Falcons, came Stenka Razin.
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