NOTES ON TRAVEL 267 



broken in health by many months in the prison of St 

 Peter and St Paul. He had been in command of troops 

 in an outlying part of Russia and was suddenly arrested 

 and thrown into prison with no reason assigned, and for 

 nearly a year knew nothing of the charge against him 

 or what was happening to his family. Many readers 

 will remember the assassination of the Russian governor 

 Bobrikoff in 1905. On his appointment Bobrikoff had 

 declared that if he were allowed a free hand he would 

 reduce Finland to subjection in two years. This was 

 granted and a time of unexampled harshness and 

 severity began. Then when some specially hard mea- 

 sure was about to be taken, a young civil servant, when 

 he brought in some papers to be signed brought also a 

 revolver and killed the tyrant and with the next shot 

 ended his own life. This was the brilliant and idolised 

 son of General Schaumann. At once all the intimate 

 friends of the boy, he was little more, fell under suspicion, 

 their houses were searched for incriminating documents, 

 and the father was arrested and imprisoned. The search, 

 however, revealed no trace of any complicity. Evidently 

 the boy had made up his mind, and without a word to 

 his most intimate friends, did the deed. His sacrifice 

 was not without avail. A milder governor was appointed, 

 and the country had a time of peace and gentler rule. 

 Young Schaumann was spoken of as " Ce jeune heros 

 qui a sauve le Finlande." 



On the morning of the 25th August the Ramsays left 

 Helsingfors, seen off by seventeen of their name and 



