commander, Serge Mouravieff, not venturing to impose on them any fatigue of the solemnities of the first day in the year. On the 2d of January, receiving no answer from Keiff, and presuming that the news of his insurrection must have reached that place as well as Broussiloff, he directed his course to Belaia Tserkoff, and passed the night in the village of Pologhy. Having there understood from Chipilla that the troops whom he wished to secure were not at Belaia Tserkoff, Mouravieff once more changed his plan and returned towards Trilessié, to draw near the members of the Slavonian Society, and to attempt a junction with them. But between the village of Oustimovka and Korolevka, he fell in with the detachment of hussars under General Gusinar, which had been sent in his pursuit. "I ranged my companies in battle order," he says; "I commanded them to stand to their guns with the officers who remained, but not to fire a shot. The soldiers followed me, when I fell by a case-shot; and on recovering my senses, I saw the men in disorder. I sought to rally them; but, far from obeying me, they seized on Bestoujeff and myself, and delivered us to the commander of the squadron of the regiment of Marionfed, which had charged us." Matthew Mouravieff, and the other officers, were all alike made prisoners, with the exception of a third brother of Mouravieff (Hippolyte), who was killed in the action, and of Lieutenant Loukenhoff, who escaped, and was afterwards arrested at Richeenff by the local authorities. Kouznine, one of the officers taken in this affair, blew his brains out the same day in presence of the two Mouravieffs, with whom he was confined. After having pointed out the character, the views, and acts of the associations of conspirators discovered in Russia, it only remains for the Commission to call the attention of your Majesty to the part taken personally in these conspiracies and acts by the individuals examined in the course of this inquiry, and, in general, of all the accused, as well those named in the report, as those who have played a less conspicuous part in the plots, though many of these have participated in the most criminal. In separate notices on each of the accused, the Commission has endeavoured to establish the degree of their respective guilt, with the most scrupulous exactness. It has indicated their own confessions, the testimony of witnesses on their case, the fresh answers which they have given after such testimonies, and the explanations which they have furnished. These notices, as also the verbal processes of all the examinations, and other documents, more or less important, accompany the present report of the commission which has the honour of submitting them to the inspection of your Imperial Majesty. 30th May, 1826. (Signed) TATISTCHEFF, President, Minister at War. GOLENISTCHEFF KOTOUZOFF, Aide-de-camp- TCHERNYCHEFF, Aide-de-camp-General. BLUKENDORFF, Aide-de-camp-General. LEVACHEFF, Aide-de-camp-General. (Countersigned) BLOUDOFF, Councillor of State. THE END. |