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Rh children had died on the road. He had hardly settled down in a little village near Kishenev, when again that dread order to "move on" was received, and again the weary Solovev began his wanderings. Another child had died in Bessarabia, and the reduced family now made their way to the Taurida, where he hoped that the brethren would succour him in his necessity. About half-way on his journey, as he was passing through a small town, he was informed by the police that he was not to continue his present route, but to proceed to Ciscaucasia, where orders had been already sent to prepare the authorities for his arrival. The wretched, harassed man, with his sick wife and two remaining children, arrived at last in Stavropol, famished and emaciated, with his hope and his passion of spirit gone for ever.

Solovev's case is a type of numerous others. One of the noblest of the Kief preachers, Ivan Lisotski, was treated in the same way. Two of his children also succumbed to the hardships of travel, his means of livelihood were also taken from him, and for over ten years he was harried about from province to province, but, unlike Solovev, he never lost hope, he always remained sanguine and buoyant, and now from his place of exile in distant Transcaucasia he maintains a correspondence with his friends in Russia which heartens them in their troubles, and does much to bind together in bonds of brotherly sympathy the sorrowing villagers whose lot is becoming so terrible with those who have gone from them into banishment and exile.

All through the five years between 1882 and 1887 the police were active in the service of the Inquisition. The local prisons in the provinces of Kief, Kharkov, Bessarabia, and Kherson always contained numbers of Stundists, men and women who had either been tried and found guilty of tampering with the Orthodox, or else were there on suspicion