HARTMANN, THE NIHILIST.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1955, 31 May 1880, Page 2

HARTMANN, THE NIHILIST.

A correspondent of the “ Ruskaya Pravda,” from Archangel, gives some interesting particulars concerning Hartmann. For some years there lived tit Archangel a certain Nicholas Har'mann, who kept a shop for tho sale of various articles of luxury. He was married twice, and h-d five sons altogether. The eldest Ban committed suicide about ten years ago by cutting his threat with ar z >r. At the present time there are four brothers living. Two serve as telegraphists in the south of Russia, another is in one of the establishments of military jurisprudence, and the fourth, Albert, has been living for several years pret without a passport and nobody knows hew. Albert received an education in the G> mnesium at Archangel, and was fifteen years of ago when his father died. The death of the father left the family in great straits, and for this reason Albert was obliged to leave school' before he had finished the usual course. He came to St. Petersburg and got employment in a merchant’s office, but only stayed hero about a couple of years, and then left for Rostoff, on the Don, where he was engaged in the Chancellery of tho Town Council, and ultimately as a book-keeper in a Bank. He again changed his occupation, and became a teacher in a national school. But for this purpose he was obliged to change his creed and become an orthodox member ot the Russian Church. With this conversion he was re-baptized under the name of Leon, He then taught in a school at Taganrog, but not for long. Oomlng into unpleasant contact with the educational authority of the district, ha quitted the occupation of preceptor, and from 1875 or 1876 Leon Hartmann ceased to he what is called a legal or legalised person. Having been born at Archangel, it had always been necessary for Hartmann to apply in that district for his passport. Now, however, ha discontinued renewing his pass, and broke off all relations with Archangel. From this time the name of “ Leon Nicholas Hartmann, of Archangel,” is met with in cue or two political trials, which shows that Leon Hartmann was then living under another name and with a false passport. He appears to have conducted himself very well while at school in Archangel. Although a German by birth, he was well grounded in the Russian language and spoke it well. He must bo about thirty years of ago now, as he was born in 1849 or 1850. It appears from an account in the Russian Press that there arc 300 children in Saghalien belonging to the convicts recently deported thither, and that they are suffering from want of the very first necessaries of life. A number of beneficent persons, under tho patronage of the Czarevna, are collecting subscriptions to supply provisions and clothing for these destitute and involuntary exiles in Sagiialien. It would seem that, while providing for the necessities of the convicts, the authorities of S-ghalien do not undertake to k ep alive their families a? well. In April a further transpoit of criminals will bo made ■ a the island in tho good ship Niini Novgorod.