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Russian Unrest Spreads as Students and Workmen Riot

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 13.

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Russian Unrest Spreads as Students and Workmen Riot

The Russian government has proclaimed “a state of siege at Odessa, Kieff, and Kharkoff, because of riotous demonstrations on the part of students.” In Moscow several thousand workmen have joined the students there in “erecting barricades, and serious riots have occurred.” M. Bogoliepoff, Russian Minister of Public Instruction, who was recently shot by “a former student of the University of Moscow,” died of his wound the 15th inst. “The students’ agitation in Moscow has become extremely serious. The schools are closed, and a state of siege virtually exists.” Russia may yet find herself “over a volcano” of her own at home.