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WHAT TRUST CAN BE PLACED IN THE SINCERITY OF THE CZAR'S APPEAL WHEN FOLLOWED BY SUCH AGGRESSIVE & REPRESSIVE MEASURES!
CRANE
(Walter, 1845-1915, Painter and Illustrator)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr VOLKHOVSKY
(Feliks Vadimovich, 1846-1914, Ukrainian and Russian Revolutionary, Journalist and Writer) replying to his letter with the resolution carried at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom. I can only say that I entirely sympathise with the terms of that resolution, as I think it most deplorable at the moment of the Czar's appeal for peace and disarmament that the Finnish people should be deprived of their political liberties, & placed under the military authority of the Russian government. What trust can be placed in the sincerity of the Czar's appeal when followed by such aggressive & repressive measures?..., 2 sides 8vo., 13 Holland St, Kensington crossed out and a note at the top of the letter in another hand Baking up our Resolution, 26th March
Item Date: 1899
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Background
The Society of Friends of Russian Freedom was an organization of British and American political activists and reformers who supported the Russian opposition movement against Tsarist autocracy, broadly defined at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Volkhovsky worked for the Free Russian Press and was a close friend and collaborator of the revolutionary writer S.M. Stepniak-Kravchinsky. In fact, Stepniak was on his way to visit Volkhovsky when he was killed by a train in 1895. Volkhovsky thereafter took over Stepniak's editorial duties at the journal Free Russia.
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