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REVOLUTION [chap. xxiv.
way to England. Eminent professor at the University
of Moscow and enlightened jurist, he had had, some time
back, to give up teaching because of difficulties raised
for him by the Board of Education, which was intensely
reactionary. His merits gained him a Chair in one of
the oldest and most celebrated universities in Europe.
He had continued to keep up close relations in Russia
with the heads of the cadet party
(constitutional-democratic), particularly with Miliukoff, Golovin, and
Kokoch-kin. It would seem as if he ought,to have been pleased
at the downfall of the old regime and at the favourable
turn that the Revolution had taken. Nevertheless he
wore a worried look when he came to see me. To my
questions, imbued with that enthusiasm which we were
still feeling in Stockholm, he replied with a reticence that
surprised me. At last, as we were going into luncheon
(to which I had invited him), he said: "It would take
too long to explain everything to you just now; I will
do so later; meanwhile to sum up: there will infallibly
be some Journeesde Juin in Russia, which would be very
sad, but if these days do not come it will be still worse:
Russia will be done for. Do you understand me?"
" Of course I understand you! But how truly grievous
it is!"
After luncheon my guest added a few details to the
brief prognostication he had made before. The Duma
virtually dissolved and its premises invaded by the
" Council of the deputies, by soldiers and workmen "; the
Petrograd garrison increased by all the garrisons of
the neighbouring towns and so to speak administering
the law to the Government; in the Government itself
—the Socialists and Labour members with Kerensky at
their head trying to seize on the real power. I rapidly
dropped down from the clouds. But a few days later,
through the tales of compatriots passing through
Stockholm in greater numbers than ever and through
what I could read between the lines in the newspapers,
I was able to form a clear idea of what had really
occurred.
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