A Russian Robber Chieftain.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 December 1915, Page 3

A Russian Robber Chieftain.

Tho medical students of Warsaw University are seeking acommodation at tiara toil', on the Volga, Mosoeiw University being too crowded to entertain them. Sara,toff was founded' l.y the Tartars, who called it "Sara Tow" (Yellow Hill), and was famous aa tho stronghold of Pugadheff, the rabbei chief whose ..deeds are a tradition among tho dwellers on the banks of still stands; it is really a fortresa. .Russia's mighty river. Hia house with thick walls pierced for oannon, and on one of tihe iron clamps which fasten the stonea together is the date 1775, when the herotreebooter began to heur&ss the oounttry. Pugajcheff

captured Astraahan, Saratoff, and many otlior towns, andi endeared himself to the people by hanging a groat number of officials; hu>t he wtas at last conquered by a Swedish offiooiin the service of Oajtherine 11., Colonel Michelsen, wtho oonveyed him to Mossow in a-cage, as Tamburlaime oonveyedi Bajazetah, in Christopher Marlowe'# play. Pugaclxeff's expliots aire celebrated in Pushkin's iinest Btory, "The nCaptlain's Daughter," recently included in a volume of "Bohn's Popular Library." Sara-toff is now a flourishing town with a population ot over-130,000, and the river robbers ot old.terrify it 110 longer; their place is taken by the card shiarperß on tihe Volga steamers, wtho probably make as much money, tut in a less bloodthirsty manner.