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officers , together with the orthodox clergy . In the southern provinces they were looked upon as the Messiahs of liberty . The metropolitan Joseph was at that time chief of the diocese of Astrakhane . He had grown old in court intrigues ; and having sold
himself body and soul to the Czarat , had attained his present high rank through hypocrisy and the meanest compliance with the reigning powers . Throughout the south he was abhorred as the instigator of the horrible fate of the proto-pretra Daniel , who was , at intervals , roasted to death before a slow fire : these fearful tortures continued
for several months , till nature sunk beneath them . Steneke Razme condemned Joseph to the same punishment ; but he died from fright before it could be put into execution , and his body was thrown into the moat .
By the advice of some of their members , the provisional government of Solofski addressed the court a second time , presenting a list of their grievances ; but the only reply was an order to destroy them at once by force of arms . A civil war commenced in the north of Russia ; and this heroic handful of men kept the armies of the Czar at bay for the space of
nine years . It drew its strength from its love of liberty , and of their traditional form of government , which deemed all ranks equal before the law , and had made Novogorod the Great the most civilized and flourishing town in Russia . The Czarat hated , and still hates , this once celebrated republic ; and Nicholas has shown his adherence to the ancient Muscovite policy , by at once crushing certain writers who had attempted to refer to the former franchises of Novogorod . Nor can we blame him for this act of self-defence ; for in these
traditions lie the entire condemnation of the Czarat , and of Russia herself , annihilated by a German aristocracy and a Byzantine orthodoxy , the two most dangerous enemies of the people and of Christianity . Prince Loof , degraded , knouted , and at length exiled to Solovelski islands , was the principal agent in the insurrection . For many years he securely wandered over the coasts of the "White Sea , exciting
the people by his patriotic harangues , and exhorting them to protest against the advent of despotism ; and , meeting force by force , avoid the utter degradation prepared for them by the Muscovite system . The spies of the Czarat discovered his plans , and Barthelemy , the superior of the monastery of Solofski , who had done nothing to arrest the insurrectionary movement , was summoned to Moscow , and
thrown into prison . Prince Loof , and Sabbatius , the treasurer of the monastery , were also arrested , and disappeared in the prisons of the interior ; while the Archimandrite Nikanore , formerly confessor to the Czar , and superior of the monastery of St . Sabinus , took Bartheleiny ' s place . He , in course of time , became one of the most energetic chiefs of the opposition ; and it is remarkable that he was the third confessor of the Czarat to be found among its most
strenuous opponents . The missions of Loof and Sabbatius were not fruitless . The whole country rose as one man ,, Abzarie and Gerouli , the most liery of the
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officers , together with the orthodox clergy . In the southern provinces they were looked upon as the Messiahs of liberty . The metropolitan Joseph was at that time chief of the diocese of Astrakhane . He had grown old in court intrigues ; and having sold
himself body and soul to the Czarat , had attained his present high rank through hypocrisy and the meanest compliance with the reigning powers . Throughout the south he was abhorred as the instigator of the horrible fate of the proto-pretra Daniel , who was , at intervals , roasted to death before a slow fire : these fearful tortures continued
for several months , till nature sunk beneath them . Steneke Razme condemned Joseph to the same punishment ; but he died from fright before it could be put into execution , and his body was thrown into the moat .
By the advice of some of their members , the provisional government of Solofski addressed the court a second time , presenting a list of their grievances ; but the only reply was an order to destroy them at once by force of arms . A civil war commenced in the north of Russia ; and this heroic handful of men kept the armies of the Czar at bay for the space of
nine years . It drew its strength from its love of liberty , and of their traditional form of government , which deemed all ranks equal before the law , and had made Novogorod the Great the most civilized and flourishing town in Russia . The Czarat hated , and still hates , this once celebrated republic ; and Nicholas has shown his adherence to the ancient Muscovite policy , by at once crushing certain writers who had attempted to refer to the former franchises of Novogorod . Nor can we blame him for this act of self-defence ; for in these
traditions lie the entire condemnation of the Czarat , and of Russia herself , annihilated by a German aristocracy and a Byzantine orthodoxy , the two most dangerous enemies of the people and of Christianity . Prince Loof , degraded , knouted , and at length exiled to Solovelski islands , was the principal agent in the insurrection . For many years he securely wandered over the coasts of the "White Sea , exciting
the people by his patriotic harangues , and exhorting them to protest against the advent of despotism ; and , meeting force by force , avoid the utter degradation prepared for them by the Muscovite system . The spies of the Czarat discovered his plans , and Barthelemy , the superior of the monastery of Solofski , who had done nothing to arrest the insurrectionary movement , was summoned to Moscow , and
thrown into prison . Prince Loof , and Sabbatius , the treasurer of the monastery , were also arrested , and disappeared in the prisons of the interior ; while the Archimandrite Nikanore , formerly confessor to the Czar , and superior of the monastery of St . Sabinus , took Bartheleiny ' s place . He , in course of time , became one of the most energetic chiefs of the opposition ; and it is remarkable that he was the third confessor of the Czarat to be found among its most
strenuous opponents . The missions of Loof and Sabbatius were not fruitless . The whole country rose as one man ,, Abzarie and Gerouli , the most liery of the