Word: verigin
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...taken out of prison in Prince Albert, Sask. one night last week, bundled hastily into a railway car. On the eastern edge of Canada, at Halifax, a ship awaited him. He would be put aboard, taken to his native Russia. There, he felt sure, waited Death. He was Peter Verigin II, leader of Western Canada's 17,000 Doukhobors. With him were government officials, to hustle him along, keep his progress quiet. When the train reached Montreal Peter Verigin II was hustled through the station so that the Press might not question him. One cried in Russian...
Meanwhile an airplane had roared out of Winnipeg and down to Chicago. It had been chartered by two men who wanted very much to see Peter Verigin II before his boat sailed. There was little time left-if they had only known 24 hours sooner! They stopped in Chicago, got into a burlesque house by mistake, hurried along to catch the night plane to Newark. Then to Boston, where one of them rested from airsickness, and on to Halifax, to have one last word from Peter Verigin II before he left to meet Death...
...bandied about for almost a century from Tauris to Transcaucasia to Georgia to Cyprus, the Doukhobors-over 4,000 of them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries expanded. Their property became worth $20,000,000 even though Canada took back 360,000 of the now fruitful acres. Peter Verigin aged...
...Peter Verigin was killed in a strange explosion on a railroad train. Young Peter, who said he had been imprisoned and twice remitted from death by the U. S. S. R., got leave to return to Canada on condition that he stay away from Russia for good. Since then he has admitted receiving $720,000 from his loyal, prosperous Doukhobors. But clashes with the Government have increased, hundreds of Doukhobors have been jailed. Proposals have been made that the Doukhobors be at least isolated on an island; by the terms of their admission in 1899 it is impossible to exile...
...exile Peter Verigin II is possible because he came later, is an alien; but an alien convicted of a crime may be deported after serving half his prison term. Last May, on the same day that 118 other Doukhobors were given three-year sentences for parading naked, Peter Verigin II was jailed for perjury. He hoped to be sent to Mexico (whose government would permit 10,000 Doukhobors to settle there) but Canada preferred to return him to the land of his birth. Canadian officials called his death-talk the usual plea of deportable persons, said...