A RUSSIAN VENDETTA,
EIGHTEEN SLAIN FOR ONE. St. Petersburg, Oct. 9, Some curious blood feuds have come to HghW&She provinces of Saratoff .uuLKaian.
.'Eighteen persons belonging to a Kazan family of peasants have mysteriously disappeared in the last ninety years. The police have now discoVered letters which prove that they were victims of a neighboring family, the great-grandfather of which was murdered by one of their ancestors more than ninety years ago. The feud has continued throughout three generations and was not to cease until twentyfour murders had been committed, one murder for each year of the great grandfather's age when he was killed. As soon as the twenty-fourth murder had been committed overtures of peace were to be made. In Saratoff five murders have been committed in revenge for the murder of a girl seventy years ago.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 283, 9 December 1901, Page 2
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