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or demur.” Four of the young men initiated received orders 
to enlist fresh adherents and to form each a small independent 
section. Among them was a student of the Academy of Agri 
culture, named Ivanoff, who was devoting himself to works of 
charity with the exaltation of a saint He was much esteemed 
by his fellow-students and had great influence among them. 
He had organized aid funds for poor students ; he used to 
devote all his spare time to teaching the children of the 
peasants, and he habitually stinted himself in order to give to 
others. He believed, however, that individual beneficence 
could only assist a few unfortunates, and that nothing but 
a social revolution could put an end to the misery that exists. 
Netchaieff and Ivanoff did not long pull together. Netchaieff 
had some revolutionary proclamations posted up in the cheap 
boarding-houses that Ivanoff had organized for poor students. 
These were in consequence shut up, and the managers sent 
into exile. Ivanoff was much distressed at this, and announced 
his intention of quitting the Association. Then, in fear lest he 
should betray the secret, Netchaieff and two other members, 
Pryoff and Nicolaieff, though hitherto friends of Ivanoff, enticed 
him one evening into a quiet garden, under pretext of digging 
up a secret press, and then they shot him dead with a revolver 
and threw his body into a pond. 
To take another instance of a similar nature. The Congress 
of the International, which was going to unite at the Hague in 
1872, wished, under the inspiration of Marx, to exclude Baku 
nin, and in order to convict him of having founded a secret 
society with statutes contrary to those of the International 
a Russian exile, Utin, was commissioned to draw up a report 
on the Netchaieff affair. Utin, in order to perform his task 
took up his abode at¿Zurich. One evening, as he was walking 
about near the lake, he was attacked by eight persons who 
spoke the Slav language. These men, after having, as they 
believed, beaten him to death, were going to throw him into 
the water, when he was rescued by the arrival of some students 
of the University. We may therefore conclude, not only from 
the statutes of the Alliance, but from its acts, that it does not 
shrink from the assassination of its members.