In the typical figure of the Crom-wellman revolution is the godly dragoon Dreast-plate and broad hat, se the typical figure of the Russian revolution is the "expropriator." The "expmoprintor ix in fact a type ne well defined 90 far as dress and physiognomy are concern al as the American bad and as such he hins already been immortalized in the Spring Exhibition of the St. Peters burg Academy of Science, where he appears (in plaster-of-Paris) as a young niechanic, rather unkempt, thin, sinic ter-looking with revolver pointed full ut the spectator. It is curious how much thie type dominates the afternoon conversations round the samovar from one end of Russia to the other end judging by these conversations, 1 find the general opinion to he almost or however, a young man of twenty= five years of age, an undertaker by profession, who had received fifteen roubles in a pawnshop at the very moment that the place was held up by ten armed men, obstinately refused to deliver up the money, though he was unarmed and though the owner of the pawnshop had hastily parted with over 'a thousand roubles. The result was that one of the expropriatore shot the undertaker dead on the spot.
The robbery took place at one o'clock in the day in a crowded thoroughfare of St. Petersburg known ax Sampson Prospect and there were fifteen customers, including women, transacting business in the establishment when the dreaded ery rough the room, and sent about twenty pairs of hands ceiling-wards with a unanimity sugges tive of steady practice. The expropria-
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