Here you see for whom and for what, comrades, we have spilled our blood, gone hungry, fed parasites; — so that a bunch of these bandits, thieves, murderers and pillagers might stuff their pockets and rob you — protecting themselves with your honorable name and your support. You, comrades, spilled your blood without a murmur, suffered from parasites, hunger and cold, thinking that you were suffering and fighting for the estab-
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lishment of order.and legality, while in fact you were only helping the above-mentioned bandits and provocators to fill their pockets with your own, the people's, money, and helping them to plunder and kill perfectly innocent people, peaceful inhabitants.
When you read this letter, comrades, you will understand yourselves whom you followed; and your conscience will tell you what to do next. But in the first instance we must mercilessly reckon with the thieves referred to and take from them the people's money they stole. And for this purpose it is necessary to help with all your might the workers' and peasants' Soviet authorities to search for those thieves and mercilessly punish them in public, as they have deserved for deceiving and robbing you. When you read this do not imagine that it is written by some agitator who wants to blacken the name of your former government. No, it is written by your former comrade, who suffered with you, and you can verify all that I have written by your comrades whom you trust most of all, who were taken prisoners at Raigorod on the day of the battle. All this was made known at a meeting in their presence, together with the sixth regiment, and it was announced to all in the presence of your delegates, who had been sent to negotiate with the sixth regiment about joining them. There were present about forty of our prisoners, the whole third battalion of the regiment and your delegates.
Your former comrade of the 7th company,
P. BUKREIEV.
XVI. A Letter to the Editor of the "Cherkassy Izvestia."
COMRADE EDITOR:
I am sending herewith a list of persons who killed and robbed Jews and where they are at the present time, and also in part where the money they stole is; which list I beg you to deliver to the proper persons that they may go after these persons and take from them the people's money.
UVAROV — the money is at his mother-in-law's, in Cherkassy.
NEDELKA and the ROMANOVSKY brothers went to Nalesnoe, and from there to Kremenchug. Search must be made in both places. The money is partly with him, the rest, about 400,000 rubles, his wife brought from the Motrovsky monastery to Cherkassy and in all probability hid it in her dwelling.
GONTKOVSKY, Vasili losifovich, is himself hiding in Raigo-
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rod, with the teacher K., or if not there then he has gone to his father's in the village of Piliavo. His wife has the money in Cherkassy, or if she hasn't, then his sister M. Kerezhegin or his mother-in-law, who lives at Russko-Polianskaya street 68; in the house is a storeroom with a double hidden partition, where all stolen and pillaged goods are hidden. His sister and mother-in-law live opposite. He formerly served as a commissary official, where he also stole about 200,000 rubles. He bought a house all furnished at Ozeron in his wife's name.
FEDOROVSKY, if not yet arrested, is either at the house of his uncle Kaurov or at Dr. Chiprina's; the same also have his money and stolen goods.
GAGARIN and his son Kostia are in adjacent villages; it will be easy to find them, since he is traveling with his whole family, that is, his wife and children. His money is hidden in his own house in Cherkassy, where it should be searched for in the secret places of the house.
OZIRAN, Vasili Ivanovich; I do not know where he is hiding, but the money is at the house of his father, Ivan Terentiev Oziran, Alexandrovskaya II.
SHRAMENKO, Grigori Ivanovich; his money and stolen goods are located with Stepan Mikhailovich Vasiok, his brother Ivan Ivanovich Shramenko, and Feodosi Mikhailovich Borisenko or Borisenko's son-in-law Pechikin, together with whom he robbed the Zaritzkys; he is also hiding with the same.
VASILIEVSKY, Sergei Ivanovich; the money is with him or else with his son-in-law Rybakov, former presiding justice of the peace. He is hiding with the same; he has shaved off his mustache and beard, has put on eyeglasses, and is living with him under the name Ismailov. He plundered Jews in the company of Pratzenko Grigoriev; he lives corner of Bulvarnaya and Beloserskaya.
With Ilia Mikhailovich Lobzenko, Belozerskaya street, and Grigori Fedosievich Orovia, Kavkaskaya street (near the tower), they destroyed Zisin's.strongbox, etc.