THE TOLSTOI TROUBLE.
COSSACKS MAKE USE OF WHIPS,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright St. Petersburg, March 19.
The Countess Tolstoi has protested to the Synod against the excommunication of her husband.
One hundred students protested to the Holy Synod against Count Tolstoi’s excommunication, and petitioned the Metropolitan to excommunicate them also. They assembled in the Cathedral, shouting, smoking, upsetting images, and whistling, while Communion was being prepared. Workmen joined the pro-Tolstoi students at St. Petersburg, rioting inside the Kazan Cathedral. The rioters wore ejected after some fierce fighting, the Cossacks using whips brutally. Several women and children were crushed. Seven hundred students were arrested.
A great riot occurred at Newsky owing to the military preventing the celebration of the anniversary of the death of a heroine who was the victim of political tyranny, A revolutionary proclamation headed “ D,own with the Czar,”-was scattered broadcast. All the military and police in St. Petersburg were required to restore order.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 66, 21 March 1901, Page 1
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