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132 Vostorgov, an inspired speaker and demagogue, travelled from one end of the country to the other agitating for the extermination of all who showed the slightest sympathy with revolution. Here and there he succeeded in creating disturbances during which much blood was shed, and In which perished the progressive youth of the universities, professors, and publicists.

Under the Influence of Vostorgov families were destroyed whose son or brother was a student That was in 1905. But even to this day lives the terrible phrase which was used in Moscow by the outlawed fiends stirred up by Vostorgov: "Beat him—his brother is a student"

Vostorgov incited the Petersburg and Moscow butchers who wrought pogroms of students in 1899 and 1905.

Makar, the Bishop of Tomsk, who subsequently became Metropolitan of Moscow, met the mob which, led by gendarmes, marched towards the theatre where a political meeting was being held. Makar delivered speeches attacking the educated classes and "blessing the deeds about to be done." They were accomplished in less than an hour afterwards, when the mangled bodies of a score of eminent politicians amongst them the well-known engineer Klonowski lay tinder the burning ruins of the Tomsk theatre.

The pope Fomin In the province of Perm, a drunken profligate who devoted his life to the exploitation of