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in attendance at one of his conferences in 47 I. S. Prokhanov, In the Cauldron of Russia. 1869-1933 . New York, 1933, pp. 62-3. Countess Shuvalova's husband had at one time been the Chief of Police. Dr. F. W. Baedeker was converted by Lord Radstock in England. For years he made missionary visits to the prisons throughout the Russian Empire. See R. S. Latimer; Heier, p. 51. It is not always possible to tell whether Pashkov was the sole donor or merely one of several contributors to the sums he forwards. See PP 2/l/b/55 for a sending of 1,000 rubles to Dr. Baedeker. 49 See Pashkov's letter of 20 March/1 April 1886 to one Ivan Ivanovich, PP II/l/c/70, for mention of meetings conducted in the south of France with an English evangelist. On publishing matters, including an order placed by Pashkov for 1,000 copies of a Russian hymnal, see PP 2/29/1-46. 37 France. 50 Jones and Muckle note Pashkov's interest in the lower- class sectarians during his exile and the apparent absence of "contact with the ruling circles in Russia, even on a personal level." 51 He corresponded with missionaries, sectarian leaders, and converts of his own acquaintance. One of the converts to whom Pashkov wrote was Pyotr Smirnov, convicted of murdering a child-thief, whom Pashkov had visited in prison before Smirnov's eventual exile to Sakhalin Island. On one occasion Pashkov sent him sugar and a warm robe; on another, Pashkov arranged with others for the sending of 100 rubles. 52 Another correspondent was N. E. Gorinovich, a Ukrainian student and priest's son, who had been blinded and disfigured with acid by his Nihilist comrades. He had secured his own release from jail by informing on them. He was converted by Pashkov in a St. Petersburg almshouse, convalesced further on the Bobrinskys' estate, married, and took in blind children to 50 Both incidents are mentioned in a letter to Count Korff (PP 2/l/b/125). 51 M. V. Jones and J. Y. Muckle, "Three Letters from V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich in the Pashkov Papers," Slavonic and East European Review, LX, no. 1 (January 1982), p. 77. Jones and Muckle also point out that Mme. Chertkova was Pashkov's wife's sister, thus perhaps lessening the need for correspondence on Pashkov's part with the circle of his aristocratic co-religionists in St. Petersburg. 52 The story of Smirnov's crime and conversion can be found in an anonymous, handwritten account of the religious revival's early years, Pashkov Papers 3/1, pp. 30-31. For subsequent letters from Pashkov to Smirnov, see PP 2/l/b/53 (12/24 March 1885) and 2/l/d/20 (27 March/8 April 1887). 38 educate them. 53 . In a few cases, Pashkov supported young sectarians as they lived or studied abroad. 54 . His help was not given without exhortation and, at times, strong reproof. He wrote to one I. F. Voinovsky in Paris, reproaching him for his ingratitude and impracticality: he should be embarrassed at his ingratitude, not at his p