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Updated: May 20, 2025
The Secretary of State sent notice to Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, to leave this country. Friendly relations between the imperial government of Germany and the United States of America were at an end. Another Crown Topples The unnatural alliance of the Czar and the free peoples. The first Duma and the revolt of 1905. The Zemptsvos and the people against the pro-German officials.
These were little assemblies, one in each county in Russia, elected by the people to decide all local matters, like the building of roads, helping feed the poor, etc. They had been started by Czar Alexander II, in 1862. Although the court was rotten with graft and plotting, the Zemptsvos remained true to the people.
There is no doubt that the Germans bribed him to use his influence in their behalf. It is a sad illustration of the ignorance of the Russian people as a whole, that such a man could have gotten so great a power on such flimsy pretenses. The real salvation of the Russians came through the Zemptsvos.
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