3-071-016 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in St. Petersburg by our special artist, 1881. '1. A Night Watchman at a House Door; 2. Cossacks Patrolling; 3. Sentinel under Canal Bridge; 4. Our Special Artist in a Difficulty; 5. Cossacks on the Alert...The Sketches of our Special Artist in St. Petersburg show some of the incidents of the present condition of that city, where fresh discoveries have been made by the police, and extraordinary precautions have been adopted, since the alarm caused by the assassination of the late Emperor Alexander II. The city is now invested by a chain of Cossack patrols, with posts of guard officers and police on all the high roads...The Cossacks are instructed to send everybody trying to enter the town to the superior officers stationed on the highways, by whom the strictest investigation is made...Every householder is obliged to keep a private watchman outside the street door all through the night'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.