3-052-464 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Arrest of a suspected nihilist at St. Petersburg, 1880. Scene following the '...atrocious attempt of the Nihilist conspirators to murder the Emperor and his family by the explosion of dynamite beneath the dining-saloon in the Winter Palace...the police have been very active in making arrests, both at St. Petersburg and in other towns and districts, since the affair of last November at Moscow, when a mine was exploded beneath the railway by which his Majesty was to have travelled in entering that city. The Daily News' correspondent, however, comments severely upon the enormous exaggerations and misstatements of Vienna and Berlin newspapers concerning the multitude of persons, set down at 12,000 by one of those journals, who were said to have been arrested and transported to Siberia. We are now very positively assured by this correspondent "that there is no foundation for the circumstantial statement in the Berlin paper of the arrest on the 18th of two generals...and many others; or for the Vienna paper's statement of sixty officers and 110 Court officials; or for the statement of the Pesther Lloyd, on the authority of a Warsaw letter, respecting the arrest, before the palace explosion, of many persons not Nihilists".' From "Illustrated London News", 1880.