V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v26;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Pages: 121-121

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SEPARATE EPISODES OF THE MASSACRE.
NEAR THE TROITSKY BRIDGE
The correspondent of the English newspaper *The [Standard] Daily Telegraph* telegraphed on Sunday evening:

“By nine o’clock on Sunday morning all the bridges were already occupied by troops, the streets leading to them were barricaded. By eleven o’clock the whole of Petersburg had the appearance of a conquered city. Every 100–200 yards troops are stationed, soldiers are warming themselves around campfires, weapons gleam, Red Cross vans are visible, stored in abundance for the wounded. At twelve o’clock the entire population was astir. They were moving toward the Winter Palace. Nevsky was black with workers, who were sometimes accompanied by their wives. No signs of disorder or drunkenness. The roofs of low houses are full of young spectators. A mass of apartments with open windows, despite the cold wind. We drove to the premises of the workers’ ‘Society,’ but it turned out to be locked. Everywhere there are rows of soldiers and Cossacks. On the Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt we saw a crowd of male and female workers who were slowly moving toward the Troitsky Bridge. There were about 600 of them. They marched solemnly, in perfect order. The first ten or fifteen rows walked hand in hand. We rose in our sleigh and began to watch them as they marched. They turned to us and to other spectators and began to urge them to join them. They approached the square near the bridge. Dismounted Cossacks are warming themselves by running races. The sound of a bugle is heard. The Cossacks form ranks. And then, calmly, deliberately, they fire once, twice at the approaching crowd. The crowd stopped, [surged] wavered and turned back. Wails and cries, curses of the fleeing reach us. Mounted Cossacks attack the crowd, push it back, pick up the dead and wounded. My watch shows

* This article was not printed in *Vperyod*. Instead, under the same title, *Vperyod* carried the following correspondence from Petersburg with the subtitle: “A Student’s Letter from St. Petersburg.” *Ed.*