Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — A Romantic Tragedy in Russia. [ARTICLE]

A Romantic Tragedy in Russia.

A singular Nihilist tragedy, in which a peasant girl plays a prominent part, has recently startled Odessa. Tavo broth ars belonging to a family of small landed proprietors, Enkouvatoff by name were so much attached to each other that they could not live apart. For this reason, perhaps, when the elder, Pimen, joined a Nihilist society, the younger, Dometi, did the same. The Enkouvatoffs belonged to the nobility; but that did not prevent Pimen from marrying a peasant girl. Unhappily, Dometi sympathized so entirely with Pimen that he conceived a passion for the latter’s wife, and showed pertinacity in his attentions to his sis-ter-in-law. The involuntary cause of all this trouble was devoted to her husband, who naturally should have turned his brother out of the house. Pimen, however, still allowed Dometi to live with him; and, to assuage his jealousy consented even to live apart from his wife, and to “treat her,” as the report of the trial puts it, “like a sister.” One night Pimen Avas awakened by his wife running into Iris room and crying out that Dometi, armed with a razor, was about to attack him. She was followed by the infuriated Dometi, brandishing a razor, and Pimen, in self-defense, took up the revolver, Avhieh every Nihilist seems to have at hand, and shot his brother through the heart.