For Faith, Tsar, Fatherland and land to peasants (on the activities of the of Bessarabian province)

Eight members of Lomachintsi Branch of the Union of Russian Peopleparticipated in the celebrations on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanovs' house in February, 1913. Having returned, they began to disseminate among the peasants of the Sekuryan Volost of Khotin Uezd of Bessarabian Province the information that there was the Emperor's Decree, kept secret from peasants, according to which the land would be redistributed. In the neighboring village of Mikhalkovo on behalf of "society" it was announced that local peasants should not go to work for local landowners and rent their land. Peasants from other villages hired by local landowners were not allowed to start working under the threat of forcible removal from fieldwork, fines and beatings. This was the attempt to force landowners to abandon their land to be later distributed among peasants. The Police Department launched the investigation by the complaints of a local landowner and a priest, which resulted in arrest of several members of the Union. Soon some of them were released. In May, some of members of the Union took part in the celebrations held in Moscow and Kostroma.

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