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Soil,” who are foreign creations, and were never a true
representation, but particularly Dostoyevski’s “The
Possessed,” an ultra-reactionary caricature of a tendency in
which he participated in his youth, but to which by the
lapse of time he had taken an aversion. And it must be
remembered that no other sketches of this youth can be
found, in books which are published in Russia, than
such as are intended to pass the censor. And it would
be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a sympathetic sketch of the outlaw elements of
society to go through the Russian censorship.
A plainly clad, very intelligent young girl came to
a country town in the department of Orel, who
supported herself by the modest and unartistic employment
of painting portraits of the dead from photographs.
While very young, with some other young girls she had
gone among the people in the country to teach the
peasants to read and their wives to sew; she wished for once
and all to live with them. The authorities arrested these
young girls, separated them, and sent them all by the
administrative process to different remote towns,
despatching this one to a very small town in the department of
Vólogda. There she made the acquaintance of Viera
Sassúlitch, who was also exiled, and they lived there
together for several years. In this way she became
infected with revolutionary ideas. She was especially on
her guard with the families of rank and wealth in the
vicinity. But she met a lady to whom, after further
acquaintance had inspired her with confidence, she said:
“I see you are human; I class you as one of us.”
The most of these young girls are plain, rather
unattractive, hardly ever sensual. They are wholly entranced
by their ideas. Several ladies who were present as
spectators at the celebrated political trial which goes by
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