NIHILISM IN HIGH PLACES.
Great sensation has been caused both in St Petersburg and Moscow by the suicide of one of the Russian Imperial Chamberlains. The real motive for the deed has not been allowed to be published, the Russian journals attributing it to mental aberration caused by a serious and painful illness. The facts, however, are these. For some time past both the Emperor and Empress have frequently found in their rooms copies of Nihilist proclamations, and the strictest inquiries failed to discover the culprit. One day recently the Czarina, on going into her study, was much surprised to see the Chamberlain in question standing in a suspicions attitude before her writing table. She questioned him, and he, taken by surprise, drew from his pocket a Nihilist proclamation, which he was just about to place on the table. Her Majesty did not lose her presence of mind, but gave orders for him to be searched, when upon him were found a nnmber of similar documents. She commanded him to leave her presence and the unhappy man went straight to his own room and there shot himself dead. Pains were taken by the authorities to keep the true cause of the suicide secret, and, so far as the Russian papers were concerned, with success.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3309, 9 November 1883, Page 3
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