Before the Red Tribunal in the magnificent Hall of Nobles at Moscow appeared Ivan Okladsky, aged 65, to answer for a crime committed 43 years ago. He was charged with being the world's greatest traitor, a man who had lived on the blood of revolutionary martyrs. Thousands of people flocked to hear the life history of Okladsky.
Ivan Okladsky became a revolutionary in his earliest days. He joined the Narodnaia Volia or Party of the People's Will—members of this party are better known as the Nihilists—which was led by Prince Peter Kropotkin, Catherine Breshkovsky,...
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