Гастон Леру - The Secret of the Night

The train trembled and moved. They cried, "Vive la France! Vive la Russe!" Athanase Georgevitch wept. Matrena Petrovna, at a window of the station, whither she had timidly retired, waved a handkerchief to the little domovoi–doukh, who had made her see everything in the right light, and whom she did not dare to embrace after the terrible affair of the false poison and the Tsar's anger.

The reporter threw her a respectful kiss.

As he said to Gounsovski, there was nothing to be regretted.

All the same, as the train took its way toward the frontier, Rouletabille threw himself back on the cushions, and said:

"Ouf!"

The "Barque" is a restaurant on a boat, among the isles, near the Gulf of Finland, on a bank of the Neva.

In this story according to Russian habit General Trebassof is called alternately by that name or the family name Feodor Feodorovitch, and Madame Trebassof by that name or her family name, Matrena Petrovna.—Translator's Note.

Actual attack on Witte.

Rumored cause of Plehve's assassination.

The little street of the apothecaries.

As a matter of fact, after this day no more notes are found in Rouletabille's memorandum–book. The last one is that above, bizarre and romantic, and necessary, as Sainclair, the Paris advocate and friend of Rouletabille, indicates opposite it in the papers from which we have taken all the details of this story.

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as told in "The Lady In Black."

In the trial after the revolt at Cronstadt two young women were charged with wearing bombs as false bosoms.

"What does it matter!"

The Russian national anthem.

Historically authentic.