A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist
By William Le Queux
Length8h 2m
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Excerpt: "While writing for The Times a series of articles dealing with the Russian Revolutionary movement and the condition of political exiles in Siberia, I became acquainted with the original of Anton Prèhznev. Strange as his stories chronicled in these pages may appear, there are nevertheless in London at the present moment many refugees from the Tzar's empire who could relate facts of an even more startling character. Tzaricide is unfortunately as popular in Russia as it ever was, and the so-called Nihilists have, since the accession of Nicholas II., relinquished none of their activity. There was but little genuine mourning for Alexander III., and the feigned national affliction was speedily succeeded by joyful anticipations of a new and prosperous era. But Russia has already found that her golden hopes have faded. The powerful, unscrupulous officials surrounding the young sovereign, prompted by those evil principles that made Russia under Alexander III. a blot upon European civilisation, have, by painting in lurid[6] colours a rude and ungrateful nation whom to govern is now his thankless task, quickly succeeded in crushing any projected reforms. Thus the despairing nation continues to writhe under the oppression of corrupt officials, and those who dare lift their voices in protest are arrested and hurried without trial to far Siberia. The land is inundated with the swelling flood of the people's sorrow as rivers in spring, abundant with water, overflow the fields, and it will always be as long as an irresponsible, cruel, and despotic autocracy holds and directs her destinies."
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
10CHAPTER VIII. THE VELVET PAW.
2CONTENTS.
11CHAPTER IX. THE JUDAS-KISS.
3CHAPTER I. WHY I BECAME A NIHILIST.
12CHAPTER X. AN IMPERIAL SUGAR PLUM.
4CHAPTER II. ON TRACKLESS SNOWS.
13CHAPTER XI. THE CONFESSION OF VASSILII.
5CHAPTER III. MY FRIEND, THE PRINCESS.
14CHAPTER XII. FALSE ZERO.
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6CHAPTER IV. THE BURLESQUE OF DEATH.
15CHAPTER XIII. THE FATE OF THE TRAITOR.
7CHAPTER V. SOPHIE ZAGAROVNA’S SECRET.
16CHAPTER XIV. AN IKON OATH.
8CHAPTER VI. BY A VANISHED HAND.
17CHAPTER XV. THE TZAR’S SPY.
9CHAPTER VII. A ROMANCE OF THE STEPPE.
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