“Another beautiful nihilist…” (1887)

Sketches of Russian Heroines. I. Vera Figner BY May Beals-Hoffpauir Twenty-two years, nearly one-third of the expected three score and ten, spent in a black prison cell with no glimpse of passing cloud or starry […]

“In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with its abuse. The thing – the thing itself is the abuse !” – Burke GENERAL PRINCIPLES Human society […]

A YOUNG NIHILIST WOMAN. She Kills a Government Officer and Then Commits Suicide. New York, February 3d.— A letter to the Tribune from St. Petersburg gives the following details of the recent murder of Colonel […]