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Excellency for this reason, that I find it hard to believe that
all these monstrosities that are being perpetrated in these
villages are done in accordance with your order. I cannot
understand how outrages committed by a band of drunkards
upon defenceless women and children, this kerchief-pulling
from the heads of women” (a great outrage in the eyes of
Russians), “this filling of izbas with dirty water, &c., can be
measures officially undertaken to put down Stundism in the
government of Kiev. It is disgraceful that such means of
opposing Stundism and bringing back the apostate to the
bosom of the Orthodox Church should be adopted at night and
in drunkenness by the Church’s own children. Your Excellency
will doubtless agree with me that the coarsest nocturnal
outrages on women are hardly the measures calculated to inspire
much respect for the faith of their perpetrators.
“Finally, I appeal to your Excellency to do your utmost to
mitigate the sufferings of the persecuted Christians in those
regions.”
Kiev was by no means the only theatre of these outrages.
Such pamphlets as “The Damned Stundist,” the sermons and
speeches of priests and “Orthodox missionaries,” and other
means of incitement still more despicable had their natural
result. Prince Khilkov sent the following letter to the
Archbishop of Kharkov, dated February 3rd, 1893:—
“Your High Holiness,—It is pleasant to every man, engaged
in any kind of work, to see the fruits of his labour. Admire
then, your High Holiness, the fruits of your own. The
repeated appeals made by your Holiness and other like-minded
spiritual shepherds, who are described in John x., have
found a ready response in the hearts of the village police in the
province of Kiev. Now rejoice!
“The placards which by your orders are being nailed to the
church walls, and in which one part of the population is
incited to hate the other; the pamphlet ‘The Damned
Stundist,’ which has been circulated by your High Holiness
with so much zeal; your own and your helpers’ sermons
delivered in the churches, have finally accomplished the aim for
which they were written and pronounced (for should one think
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