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Small Deeds and Muffled Voices

The assassination of Alexander II brought a predictable crackdown on Russia’s public sphere, though not before the trial of the terrorists had been given prominent coverage in the press. The ensuing period brought the defeat of government reform projects and the heyday of Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the arch-conservative Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod. Pobednostsev had no time for liberal ‘talking-shops’, but he aimed to revitalize the Orthodox Church by increasing the quantity of priests and the quality of their preaching. In this era of counter-reform, the theatre and the university became the most lively secular venues for the spoken word. Nonetheless, local government—whether the municipal duma or the zemstvo—was not quiescent and began to mobilize once again with the famine of 1891–2.