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The Agitation in Russia: arrest of students at the Mining Academy, St. Petersburg, 1890. 'The discontent among the students of the University of St. Petersburg has broken out afresh. Being provoked by the refusal of Count Delianoff, Minister of Public Instruction, to receive the petition setting forth their grievances, which was to have been presented to him by M. Mendeleieff, Professor of Chemistry, on their behalf, the students became greatly excited, and all the efforts of the Curator, General Novikoff, to induce them to take no further action were ignored. Two or three hundred assembled with the intention of marching in a body to the Ministry of Public Instruction and presenting the petition themselves; but before they could carry out their purpose the police intervened and arrested 175 of them. Another procession, composed of pupils of the School of Mines and Forestry...was stopped by the police, who arrested a great number of these young men. Many of the students belonging to the Technological Institute have likewise been imprisoned for taking part in some meetings of a seditious character: and some arrests have been made at the Military Academy of Medicine, the pupils of which...drew up complaints of the present educational system'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.