The Duma in Session - Blood Stained Russia - pictures from a 1918 book by Captain Donald C. Thompson

The Cossack's lands were free from taxes. Each male at birth received a small parcel of land to hold in perpetuity. The Duma, against the wishes of the Czar, decided to tax these lands. After a bitter argument, the Czar yielded. The day he signed the degree he signed his abdication, just as surely as he signed the actual document at Pskoff. The Cossacks answered him by saying: "we have defended you for the last time against your own people; when the next revolution comes we shall fight with the people." The picture shows the Duma in Session, It will be noticed that every man is in uniform.

INTRODUCTION
Part One
A Typical Group of Cossacks
The Duma in Session
The Monk Rasputin, the Evil Genius of the Old Regime in Russia, Surrounded by Admiring Women
The Princess Virubova, Lady-in-Waiting to the Czarina and the Most Notorious of Rasputin's Woman Intimates at The Court
A Russian Bread Line Guarded by the Imperial Police
Duma Messengers Protected by Armed Guards
The Hotel Astoria, After it Had Been Sacked by a Mob of Revolutionists
The Hotel Astoria After It Had Been Sacked
Captain Thompson's Room in the Hotel Astoria
A Group of City Militia, the Volunteer Police with an Armoured Car.
Part Two
A Court Lady Camoflaged as a Sister of Mercy
A Labour Day Loyalty Demonstration at the Hotel Astoria
The Winter Palace as Hospital
Cossacks Going to Take Over a Position Which had been Abandoned by Other Russian Troops
Loyal Russian Soldiers at Mess
Colonel Eugene Hurd of Seattle, Washington, Who Did Much for Russia
Peasant Women Bringing their Sick Children to the American Doctor
Dr. E. H. Egbert, an American Surgeon and his Staff
The Motor Ambluances of the American Hospital Service in Russia
Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm C. Grow, a Philadelphia Doctor
Part Three
Florence MacLeod Harper, Staff War Correspondent for Leslie's Weekly, as a Nurse in Russia
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and Maria Bochkarieva
The Wounded Back in Petrograd Less Than Three Weeks After They Started
A Group of Children Orphaned by the Revolution
The Great White and Gold Cathedral of Kronstadt
Kerensky Reviewing a Regiment of Cossacks on their Return from the Front
Lenin and Trotzky, Leaders of the Bolsheviki, Placing Wreathes on the Graves of their Followers
Officers of the Troops in Petrograd about to Take the Oath of Allegiance to the Revolution
Funeral of an Officer Killed by Some of his Men and Buried by Others with Military Honors

Part One - The Duma in Session

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