Wilhelm Schlau.

lm First world war in Russia

The outbreak of the First Veltkrieges we experienced in Mitau, where I at the of the knighthood-maintained country school teaching. The position of the German was more difficult. Both the Russian as well as from the Latvian side, there was hostility, suspicion, climbing, denunciations. Officials of German nationality were deprived of their offices, drove reported at the end of German Men from the edge of the area. The place of the police-master snow is a Russian joined Morkotun. Our school building was requisitioned by the military, the classes in private houses individually housed.
In the spring of 1915, the German troops back before came up short in front of Mitau, damn. So we dared to go for the Sommerfenen in my parents house, the parsonage Salis in the counties Wolmar,. In the meantime, however Mitau was occupied, and the Front was between Mitau and Riga. A homecoming there was no longer possible. I was forced to look in Riga to private schools work. The state schools were evacuated, and the school administration to Dorpat. I was exempt as a teacher of the country school from the Mihtardienst, but now teachers who were in my situation, were asked to stand for military service. I was provisionally put back and was advised me to work in a state school around; the next may, I was drawn in.
So I turned to Dorpat, and received in the office of the curator from the head of the former school administration, Rutzky, my former class leader at the city gymnasium in Riga, the Council to contact me to Petrograd. There was kind of the German Church schools no Vacancies, and the Director of the Reformed Church school, Brock gave me a recommendation to the assistant of the education Minister, the count Raczinsky; this received me and directed me to the assistant of the curator of the St. Petersburg educational district Markov.
Whether in another country than here in tsarist Russia, a young job-seeker teachers love, as well wiirdig and of course goods have been received?? Markov made me 3 offers: a choice of Arkhangelsk, Wilikij Ustyug and Beloozero. I reckoned with the possibility of deportation of my father as Dean of the Wolmarschen territory. Since I decided, in accordance with the Council of Markov for Ustjug, as Beloozero was too close to the West and Arkhangelsk, the main transport of Russia with its allies spread in the West went. So just Ustyug was my, perhaps, for father as a place of exile. Ustyug means the "estuary of the Jug", the tastes in the Sukhona, the means of the "Small Dvina" and soon after from Kotlas to together with the Wytschegda the Northern Dvina river is formed, flowing in Arkhangelsk into the White sea.
The choice proved to be correct. In Petrograd I was in my study, Friedrich Dahl, doctor comrades on the German Alexander Hospital. Directly in front of my Aurbruch my brother Otto was evacuated with a part of the Riga commercial Bank to Petrograd. I visited there before my departure, the Chairman of the school Council of our Lahdesschule, the count Paul Medem-Elley s. He agent me, should I put him back for You. Hunnius tell me the instant secures the back of the iris transferred to the school babe; he should be there before me, so he was going to ensure.
My trip was in heavy Frost liber Vologda to Vyatka, where I visited the there sent Baron Manteuffel-Katzdangen, and then nordwarts in the direction of Kotlas Station Lusa.
Daft Baron Manteuffel had settled German peasants from Volhynia to his goods in Kurzeme, and as a Bonner Borussia Dortmund's players of the German Kaiser, corps brother was offered a natural occasion for his expulsion. He wore unbroken going to be moved, as a commodity, he made free, as always, to the Governor a visit, kummerte the many there German civil prisoners held reading the eighth Kingdom of God services, performed funerals. As my wife nachreiste two months later with our little daughter to me, he has cared for sic-friendly in Vyatka.
From Lusa 60 verst to Ustyug were with farmers - or a man drove gains slide back. Luckily, I had received at my departure, a nice drive fur out of the estate of Alexander v. pistohl Kors-Koltzen given. I teamed up with a fellow traveler from Ustyug and came in recommended a good Inn in Ustyug. The next morning I went into the Gymnasium and introduced me to the Director. The day school was free, because the Cold was minus 25 degrees Reaumur. The Director Pomjalowsky received me kind. He came from Petrograd, where his father was the Dean of the historical-philological faculty. He was comparatively a young age, the Council of state, and wore the Vladimir medal 4. Kl., stand right of the political spectrum. The inspector Poljsky was a Democrat, a constitutional. With the Slavic and historian Basilewsky, one of the social Democrats, I have shared in these years the most. Erwalinen I liked the social revolutionar, head of the higher elementary school, Yakubov, and in front of all of em Theodor Heitmann, graduates of the St. Petersburg German Ktrchenschule. He had managed to 1905, the grammar school, owing to the difficulties in the revolution of time, the line was abandoned and remained as I. teachers at the school.
It turned out that a few hours were for me, the grade calculated according to the number of hours, and I was allowed to be as a German during the war time class teacher. Therefore, my salary was initially on 60 rubles, while I had to muster 45 rubles a month on food money. The knight looked right. The Director around, took very kindly to the issue of my accommodation, schiekte a school servant. So I came in the clean house with Central heating, the singing teacher Kostjamin, was in the main professional Secretary of the Archbishop, a close relative of the city, head married. His two sons beeuchten the Gymnasium. So relations with the youth and to society at knupftcn. The oldest son was the name of Prokopiy, in honor of the Holy Church, the Ortsheiligen of German origin. Through his prayer soil a up stone rain from the Stack pull been turned away, and at a distance of about 20 versts down be gone. Make an annual procession went on its annual day at the stone field.
It was not easy to take charge of a tense time, this Postcn. Luckily, it was an area remote from the Getnebe in the world, and without chauvinism. Nevertheless, there were some quite embarrassing Situation, I was on the second day. It is frost were still on holiday. The Director had me to ask to discuss with me the hours distribution. Present were the inspector, Mr Basilewsky, the Secretary and the clerk were in the office. At the end of the meeting the Director stated that he had a request to make of me, whose fulfillment should I predict from the outset. My reply, "if possible," opened to me, the Student had the habit, the teacher and the name of the father anzuredcn. Now, I held currently in Russia unpopular name: Wilhelm, see Kaiser Wilhelm, and Charles's son, see Emperor Charles. This could result in fatal incidents. He schluge me, to call me In Kirilowitsch. I replied to the inherited names remain, and hoped, the students were well behaved that were lead to any difficulties. You looked at the Director, that this response went against the grain, yet he bowed with bittersußem smile, thanked for my to create favorable prejudice and thought, yet could be various to happen, but my desire is crucial. I had the impression to have something spilled. As he einfuhrte me the next Morning in the work, I turned on the stairs to him with the words: "Mr Director," he interrupted me, his name was Mikhail Ivanovich. "Michael Ivanovich, take me not bad, that I have not accepted your well-intentioned advice yesterday, but I stopped myself often about people who may be in denial now its German name" (I was thinking particularly of the Prokureur the hl. Synod Gabler, who was called after his wife Dessjatowsky) that I had to me, the shameful ones, to do something Similar". The Director put a Hand on my shoulder and said: "Golubtschik, (Deaf) I understand you perfectly, they had seen it as a lack of civil courage." I have been treated had with the Director, never a conflict that I have him always courteous, chivalrous, Yes favorably. The conversation in the office was in the College and known in the city and has brought me only Good. I back come to that yet.

I singing lessons in Latin, German and ancient history. The Schuler were not willing, difficult to treat, but not much. The Gymnasium was located on the Sukhona, on a further view of the bot. On the Sukhona schone went white steamer, in a manner similar to the Rhine at high water able they were superseded from Kotlas of smaller ships. In addition, stock on the river, a lively trade with Schleppzugen. The city had 30 000 inhabitants, situated in the middle of a large nuns - and a Men's monastery were located outside of the city, 2 nuns monastery. In one and the same, having told them to spend the big furstin Elisabeth, widow of the murdered Grand princes Sergey, sister of the Empress, their evening of Life.
The large number of churches declared it to be the fact that by Ustyug — before the construction of the Siberian railway — a busy commercial street had to be performed, and the well-to-do had uberboten the merchants to set up their own churches. The main Church had a particularly fine bell. The first snow fell, sometimes at the end of August, but definitely by the end of September. Then, the shipping has been set, because the river froze over soon. We have experienced the tension system up to -43 degrees Reaumur. I bought a Pair of reindeer-fur, studded snow shoes. The snow was often so high that the horses sank, if a carriage had to Dodge the other of the stalled lane. In calm weather it felt even sharper Cold little. At 26 degrees Reaumur, I got together with a Swedish nurse who was in the small infirmary of the German civil prisoners active, Hinimel you saw the Raven circles, heard well your "Krah, krah" or "Mrs, Mrs!!" In the snow we saw many wolf tracks, leading into the city. In a night-batten Wolfe in front of our home a dog ripped.
Either came before. In March, the snow in the sunshine, and the water flowed from the roofs melted, and at night there were up to 30 degrees of Reaumur, so that you could in the morning, travel over the crusted snow with the sled. In such weather, farmers should have on snow-shoes, elk hunted, no longer broke through the snow, to sic languishes more. — Prachtig of the ice drift. The last snow we experienced at the end of may. The spring started with. The flower meadows were soon full of bluhender Troll. Around the solstice it was barely 2 hours in the dark. I was shot shortly before 23 o'clock, a woodcock. Huge flocks of ducks and wild geese passed through in spring and autumn. Fruit thrived only at geschutztcn. The Flora was diverse, but the Existing bluhte in large quantities. Also in mushrooms and berries of the forest was rich. A very aromatic berry, Polenika called, grew up as the Schellbeerc in moist Places.
I once spent a night with the son of the pharmacist Glaser at the outlet of the Jug in the Sukhona, without that we were on pull-through Ganse for the shot gekommcn. A deep impression, the rivers have left in me, particularly in the area of Kotlas, where the Sukhona and Wytschegda unite and in the spring at high water width Shallow overflows.
Here I took just before Christmas of 1915, my school work. Difficulties with the pupils resulted. I also like to have Gluck had. As I was initially a sixth-former, a printed translation from the Latin Text, asked me representative of the class, the incident neither the class teacher nor the Director. I went to it because it is the first petition of the Schiller goods. The result, a certain amount of Courtesy towards me. The colleagues were friendly to me. On the first Sunday of the inspector leaned my inaugural visit as a "Chinese ceremony" and invited me to the evening. I met other guests. In spite of the, during the war, the prevailing alcohol prohibition, there was the abundant, and I had to keep up. I went on it and had to, as it seemed to me to be enough, but still on the Well-being of the house woman for a drink. So I came up with many Schnapse and was in a daze the next day; therefore, it was in this area as weak and was spared.
As a German, I have had to suffer no side. After Christmas, the Director told me the pedagogy of teaching in the top class of the girls high school; I had my dissertation as well as pedagogy subjects. The Director also directed the teachers 'conference of the girls' high school. I have under the simple and mother of head of Sawarina can work well. To the College was as a teacher of German Frl. Eleonore Glastr, daughter of the pharmacist who was held in high esteem. In front of my Antntt the son of my house said to me, the hosts, the girls looked forward to my lessons. On my question "And?" he replied, for it had taken care of the sixth-formers. The behavior of the school interior was flawless, and after the conclusion of the test, they invited me to a group recording.
The most interesting colleague had been the math teacher of the year-long Rechnerin at the Observatory in Pulkovo in Petrograd, and was much traveled. Once she asked me in the presence of the Director, if I wanted to travel back through the beautiful Germany. The Director said to him, their cleanliness even distasteful. Very interesting was, that in the Russian press much treated German domination was also in Ustyug. Apart from the mentioned colleagues Heitmann there were other German on the responsible Post: the President of the district court's Auer, who came from Petrograd, the chief Prosecutor Rrchtlich from Jacob town in Kurzeme, married with a Dorpat serine geb. Desire Herkuntt the chief of the land register Department Wilpert, Kurland.
In the first days of February, my wife came with our two year-old daughter, Rotraut. I picked her up from the small 45 versts from Ustyug remote Station Ssawatija. They had been taken care of in Petrograd in the case of my brother, Otto, and Vyatka, like mentioned by Baron Manteuffel. The journey through the deep snow landscape of minus 8 degrees was, and you said it was around 0 degrees. Exciting the descent was on a narrow track to the Dvina and down. The horse could not hold the Kibitka, and so it went in a wild run up on the ice. Luckily, no vehicle ... ... came to meet us. I had bought a cine Uniformmutze, which raised my standing in the Offentlichikeit, but wore no Uniform, what saved me with the approval of the Director, expenditure.

For the three of us in the room at Kostjamm had become too tight, they pointed us to their German neighbours, the family Paetz on the plot a small Protestant Church that their ancestors built. They took us and helped us in Faithfulness through these years. The family was wandering about Arkhangelsk from Kiel to Ustyug, where the father of the house had been a castle master. The son of Arnold besafi aufter the house of a Dampfmuhle and Sagerei, Fastkahne and towing steamer, plying on the rivers, and aufierhalb of the city, the Gutchen Jeskino. He was an industrious, quiet man, simple and reliable. His son went to him and the shipping was during the only on the water. The center of the house was born in the beautiful Mrs. Bertha. Rothers from Arkhangelsk, where the German Church had attended school. — In the family, it was mostly spoken in Russian, but to have been a family-fixed German network organised, and if a woman Paetz played with her sister Mrs Sebald vierhandig piano, paid by the clock, not necessarily English. To was Christmas all in German. — Of the four daughters, two with cousins Glaser were married, were in the field. One of them, and the two unmarried daughter lived in the home, as well as a gelahmter uncle. — A raumten us a large by the shear wall divided the room, and came in the autumn, as my father us to the opposite second room. The third brother, Berend Paetz, directed the local Department of the Bank for foreign trade and owned the Gutchen Ssawino that lay gracefully on the Sukhona. His wife was a born. Brown from Arkhangelsk, his son, my Schuler in the high school. The sister of the three brother Paetz was married to the pharmacist i. R. Theodor Glaser. Three of his sun were in the field, two were found hosts of a found knife. Ms. Paetz had at the place her two brother, one a chemist, the other a mechanic was, and also a Brown for the wife. The sister of Mrs. Paetz was married to the owner of a large beer brewery "Northern Bavaria", Bavaria, Sebald,. By recording in the Russian subject of legacy was left to him to be owned. Quietly, they have helped many a German civil prisoners. The family is also a well-belonged-to-do, stimulating cousin James Paetz.
Germans were also an engineer on the way of administration, whose daughter Brun's name was Hilde. To these German people of Russian State memberships, a significant number of German civilian prisoner, to be found where we are, especially after the Revolution, relations, especially to the shortly before his state examination in Tartu the students of medicine Konrad Kuhne. Through him we got to know a Reval geburtigen Moscow Industrial Schott. Kuhne had an ambulance, a station tube, and a Swedish red cross nurse as an aid, but was also consulted by the Russians. So we found us a way to him and he came often of its own accord to ask after our. Kuhne was granted for the civil prisoners of the venia practic Andi. — So did the life of some stimuli gain. Quite simply, it was not Yes, you had to be very alert, also some to swallow, as revealed for example in the following Situation: The Executive Director held in the auditorium for a slide presentation on the war theme. First of all, the images of Wilhelm II, were and Franz Joseph, the war criminals, which was pointed out by generals, their brutal faces, and also a picture of German soldiers trapped by the outbreak of the war in Germany uberraschte Russian travelers in a pig sty and the Hungry meats and milk show that they drove themselves to the Heart. A picture of German Knegsschiffe it was said that they had, unfortunately, a tendency in the encounter with English ships, SAG. To have a group of Primanern in my Close to horte, I the Capital, they believed, far larger English than German losses encountered. — Another may, the speech was in the teacher's room, a monastery novice monk had left the monastery to marry a German civil prisoners. The Director raised the question of whether she had to be punished for sodomy in court, because a rich German was but an animal. On embarrassing it was, to me, a very friendly colleague Kostjamin one day, but delighted in the teacher's room the news of a great victory at the Naroschsee announced, and although I don't think a straight face grimaced and remained silent, looked at me and the word said: "Wilhelm Karlovich, the message and lachle only". My Protest did not help much, and some days later he verkundigte, I had been right: it was not a victory but a defeat. In such situations, it was simply defenseless. So high I counted it to the colleagues that not even once any chauvinist or unduldsames word to me person is against the Tiber. The Director stressed me against the Gentleman. So he said to me once, after he had been with me in class, he and I had a right to a place in any capital city.
In 1916, the curator, privy Ostroumow, Ustyug visited. He came in the first hour after the worship, I had not visited, and thus not presented was, in my Horace-hour in the top class. The Director wished to me, laughing with a hand pressure a good Morning. I offered the curator Text of my own, and gave the hour without one. It ran smooth, I took the weakest Schuler. The father Kostjamin with me after the recognition of the class for my independent attitude vis-a-vis superiors. After the departure of the curator, the Director informed me of this I have Professor of a Class and thus have full permissions in the office awarded. That was again a proof for the Janus head of the Director: on the one hand, the representative of a state nationalism, on the other hand, the large-scale movement of the culture of the people. I'm going to have to report even more. Here, the following should be mention: The liberal Minister for people's enlightenment, Graf Ignatiew, continued to Mature and until then, a standard verse-up tests except power, have led to a for a to be held periodically at the end of the control tests, under the assistance of a second teacher. I asked for the assistance of the Director. The following has happened: The sixth-former, I gleieh at the beginning of my activity in the translation had been taken off and I had repeatedly warned due to lack of diligence, failed completely. It was obvious that he had worked through the night. I reached to the Director, that he was allowed to report late afternoon, after a deep sleep once again. Because he made the whole thing sorry. Another very hard-working but linguistically less talented Schuler, I had to give strong assistance, but the Director asked simply, who would be certified is actually that of the pupils or the teachers, but my objection apply, we were marching and had to beat together. Especially nice was that a Schuler, who had prapariert his Text, and asked to establish his handkerchief out of his drawer. The thing was a bit eye-catching and afterwards, I realized from Aufierungen of the old Kostjamin, the Boy had brought an unauthorized aid. It was not yet the final, and in the next repetition, I asked the same sixth-former, when he came to the series, whether he had his handkerchief. Ererstarrte a little, the class grinned to himself, and I promptly got the censorship, the case is very pretty adjusted. There are such people as we are, and by proper treatment with a little Humor, but basically just to have.
Very strange was, that, to me, the Director wanted to once in the great lessons in the history Rufilands transferred, perhaps to the already-hot tray to deport on as-yet unloaded shoulders. On my objection, I was just in the old story home, he said, A good teacher had to be fit to any Sauce, was my Protest, however, apply.
In the spring I made a trip of two classes of ship, the small Dvina down to Kotlas with and then the Wytschegda maid to solvichegodsk, an old salt town, Ustyug on the extent and type ahnhch. In the summer of 1915, I helped with a group of older Schuler on a village of families in the field, father, stand at harvest work.

So we went to the place by the Knegsereigmsse little beruhrtes life, if Knegstransporte of us went stream upwards, and I saw, among other things, the English officers in full Uniform in the city. Our three year old daughter began to freelance. So they remained one day in front of the main Church, and be crucified, quite seriously, as she had for the simple people saw. — In the world man looked up with concern, including in the home. The expulsions have increased. General superintendent Gaethgens, Provost Marnitz, Pastor Schabert, Provost Rudolf Winkler from Tallinn and many other hit it. My father was referred to in the heavenly spring of 1916, from Salis, went to his son-in-law Masing, according to Karkus, and was exiled from there in the Fruhsommer on the Meridian of Nizhny Novgorod. Now it turned out that my requirements had been applicable, and my father could just come to us, because Ustyug was hard behind the fixed border line. We were in the summer holidays on the estate of Arnold Paetz. My father arrived by ship from Vologda coming. We brought him in the village in a clean parlor. His passport had been removed and he was under police supervision, had but alone and without the accompaniment of travel in may and was also not controlled. Since we wanted to write neither lettiseh still Russian, and a German exchange of letters under punishment was prohibited, corresponded I with my mother's French, with my father at the beginning, in Latin, to he received by the authority, the message, we could put her through not because of us, the job of a censor for Latin Bnefe!!!
Ms. Paetz ready said, my father also in your home. Very pleasant was it, that my father's arrival in the summer holidays fell in the time of our stay outside of the city. I uberlegte back and forth on how I should communicate this fact to the Director; that he was, you know, sooner or later, by the police, was never in doubt. That was me at the beginning of the new school year in August, an opportunity: the Director asked me to send him a Nachexamen to assist, and offered me the Post of Secretary of the fehrer conference on girls ' gymnasium, which had become free. Fs the conference were to lead logs, but especially the annual reports and statistics. You gained insight into business leadership and administrative services, so that it meant one step to a conductive Post and a salary Supplement caused. In any case, it was a post of Trust. I seized the opportunity to thanked for the trust, but said I had to tell the Director that my father referred to during the summer, from the Knegsgebiet, to be drawn to us goods and maybe for the school administration uncomfortable product, bring me now in Petrograd for this Item in the proposal. Fr replied that the son could not be made for the father responsible. I: my father doing wrong, he did nothing wrong, I trate safely next to him. He then he think it is, where it is the case of the forest, flew Shavings, which had inflicted a Broderich and Manteuffel (Silvio Broderich and Baron Karl Manteuffel-Katzdangen, which had moved since 1906, the German settlers from South-Rufiland to Kurzeme), Darfur had to now even the Innocent suffer. My opinion, do me all the honor, now he will propose to me to this appointment. She was immediately.
So we lived at the top of the home Paetz, looked through our window of the river and the passing ships, on the right, is the stately high school for Boys, on the other side of the wood, without a tower, erected in the Protestant Church on the plot of Mr Paetz, behind the very modest Girls high school. Next to us the high tree-lined city Park, and him vis-a-vis the Park of the boys ' grammar school.
We were completely catered for from Paetzens, belonged to the round table, have been included in the family circle, were allowed to take our cute Agnija from summer in the city, and our Rotraut voice soon with your imagination sister Russian. With time, started mem father, to keep Sunday a house of prayer, the couple Sebald very regelmafßig. Ustyug was not in the service area of a Pastor Konigsfeld in Yaroslavl, the went usually once a year, and the municipality of supervised. By my father's presence this splinter community was supplied from this until 1918. Funerals performed by the Church members themselves. I need to before the Arrival of my father twice in the service of the community beta. The first of may, as the couple Paetz bat, your son Berend, my Schuler at the high school, to confirmation, to prepare. He mastered the German language, only durftig, but was willing. So, we have set ourselves for several weeks with the essence evangehschen Christianity apart and found the Pastor, who was accustomed to a modest level, gutige recognition. — In the autumn of 1917, when my father was just a grofien trip, died of Serious Paetz. Since the brother asked me to take over the functions of the Pastor. So I had to Hand the Agenda to the Coffin and the cemetery of the nunnery Jaikowo outside of the city, where Paetzens owned a grave space, the Funeralien accomplished, of course in the German language. The Russian nuns ' choir, and the priest stepped next to me, sang the Censer swung. Religious Close to the people, hardly known. I liked to switch it on the following experience: In the staff room of the girls high school there was once a Pause to a conversation about Martyrertum. All of a sudden, the religion teacher, an old schhehter priest turned to me and said, real martyrs were the Lutheran pastors who suffered for their Protestant confession. The uberraschte me.
It was found in Ustyug is still a very dear transport for us. Outside the city, in the Villa of an officer's widow, fandcn we Dr. Kuhne family Kollner-Jessen. The German Reich nationals Wilhelm Kollner had as a country the Good Schujenpahlen in the parish host Dickeln in the Kr. Wolmar, which was one of his study mates, count Kurt Mellm, farmed, and was born with his wife. Jessen and a small son to Ustyug has been sent. His father-in-law managed the Well-Pockeln in the parish Allendorf. This was one of the privy Zeise, Director of the Schichau shipyard in Danzig, which had a branch in Riga. Subsequently, Jessen was expelled from the Baltic States and came with his wife and mother to Ustyug. We have been often and gem. My father has baptized the second, born there son of Kollners. In this traffic, I had to be natural in my exposed position, very gently, said to me, sometimes my Uniform used.
So ran our personal life quiet, but you felt here, too, an Increase in the voltages. The youth, especially the intellectuals, have been dominated in the whole Russian Empire by liberal, and by far the largest part of the socialist and revolutionaren ideas! Conservative attitude was found, especially in the circles of high officials and of the in Ustyug hardly represented nobility and the officer corps; Buying team and industry were probably mostly right, in contrast, gait democratic in academic circles, especially the University professors, almost as a self-understood, that it is progressive to be. reformed. In the small Ustyug all of this played out within narrow limits, but was tracking. On appealing to the rights wing of the social Democrats and the social-revolutionare, people thought uneigennutzig were me.

Among them such, which were about as a student of political reasons gemafiregelt. Who suffer from had for his political belief and opinion must, on a beam of a Martyr's licence fell from the outset. The cadets (constitutional Democrats) switched to the left, under the Reinsurance to the right. The party of 17. October, the so-called Oktabristen, were gemaßigt conservative, in Ustyug, you were hardly represented. Organized labor there was at the place. The war against Germany could hardly be popular. The German at the place enjoyed a Reputation as any in Russia. But by demagogic measures incited the population of large towns to make way to the temptation of excesses against the Germans. Without question, an aversion to monarchist Germany, and the German military and against William II in person stock in the Russian democratic layers. Like was also claimed that Bismarck is to blame that Russia's Balkans wishes were not fulfilled: He had disappointed as an "honest broker" at the Berlin Congress in 1878, aware of Russia and harmed; this is the thanks that Alexander II during the German-French war of 1870-1871, his uncle Wilhelm I towards in good wool have been of Neutrality gun. Certainly have made a lot of thoughtful people at the outbreak of the Revolution of thought, but a very large part exulted. The common people hoped for an end to the war, I. andzuteilungen, the rattling since the agrarian riots of 1905 in the heads around. In the case of large quantity, Yes for many people, the criticism could practice, there was a dysentery of naive optimism: Now everything will be good, the Bad, Unfair to just disappear, crime will not give it, the Russian Revolution was bloodless started and am bloodless to be performed; Kerensky, the light representative of the younger Generation, burge Darfur, he had embraced on a revolutionaren sailors meeting in Brasov, a Sailor and gekußt as a sign of the reconciliation and Verbruderung.
We looked ahead to a different. As we außerten once such, in the conversation, we found no understanding. The Director looked up, and when he said to me once "is ground it to flour by the result," sound as clear that he wanted to calm down. In a political Assembly of this first revolution days, a liberal speaker said to us, now, in 1917, there were in Russia no subjects more, now, every man is sovereign flattop, the Imperial crown was broken up and each a piece of her was falling. One of the first ways led to this "free" people in Ustyug to alcohol defeat. She was stunned, fire Damage, an Explosion hurled a giant boiler through the roof to the street. People who wanted to get alcohol, caught fire, remained in jingling Frost in the snow and froze to death. When my father and I went the next day over, the raft from a crane, from which a flame zungelte, alcohol. A man held a long pole attached to a bucket below it, and distributed the precious Wet to lovers. The disaster of yesterday storte anyone. — It is now called in the various self-management bodies. The head of the district administration of Courland-born Latvian diploma farmer was elected Damberg, chair of the teachers ' Association, which included all the schools of the district, the high school teacher Atabakow, of Armenian origin. It was surely significant that the came Russian rather to the implementation. To me, not somehow separate, I joined the teachers ' Association. At the meetings has been much debated. I managed fairly soon to get my father's passport from the police. So hoards his control is practically. 27. 4. n. St. in 1917, was born our son Wilfried. It was a kraftiges child, and if he raised his voice, it was said in the wochner interior home "the German cries". 24. May n. St. christened my dad the boys in the house animal family Paetz, took a lovely part of our Experience. The whole family, and Dr. Kuhne were invited. The Tauftext was: "So stand fast in the Faith. Be men and be strong". And my wife described the fact; as the most of your life.
For the summer, the Director of the Bank Paetz offered us his summer house, which was far from the Sukhona Near Ustyug. We had our Agnija as a support, because with the rays, and baking in the big oven, my wife was not alone.
The landscape images are available to me right in front of eyes. The house was in the forest, the snipe, and crows nested. Young Raven sat sometimes on the rail of our porch. In the morning I woke up to Sunny days, often around 5 am, because the sun warmte through the shingle roof, that I couldn't sleep. After 10 o'clock in the evening, but it was very cool. Already were the light nights. We were able to read until 23 o'clock. — In this summer of 1917 my brother Hans for a few days of leave from the Front came to us. He was equal to come at the beginning of the war as a doctor in the small fortress Ossowetz in Western Poland. Savers, he has a regiment - and, most recently, division doctor. After the overthrow, he was chosen as man of trust for the officers in the Council of his Division. When my brother wanted to return after the armistice at Brest-Litovsk in spring 1918, and in the self-resolution process of the Russian army, he was stopped at the station in Vilnius of the German field gendarmes and the first to Stralsund, and from there to Krefeld in an officer's prison camp, from where he returned only shortly before the Christmas of 1918 in a very unterernahrtem state home. — The farewell was at the time in the summer of 1917 — the ungekl types of secrets Act have been difficult.
On a teacher's Assembly Association before the summer holidays, a honorary Council of seven members had been chosen, in particular, any loads of teachers from the Tsar's time should be clear. While the note election of Mr Basilewsky approached me and said, I scin the first candidate. To my upper surprise I selected actually. We have only treated a great thing: A religion teacher, a priest, made a decidedly good impression, and was affected, to have the school Supervisory authority opinions about his colleagues delivered.
In the Spatsommer in 1917, the appeal came from the German civilian prisoners, whose situation had eased, to my father, to visit them for spiritual service in the neighboring towns and villages. In Ustjug, he held Yes, since he had his passport back, almost regelmafug Gottesdicnste, which were also attended by civil prisoners. Now it came to a round-trip from end of July until the end of September. He was accompanied by Dr. Canus, Eelirer at the German school in Bucharest, by the outbreak of war had been while surprised a holiday trip in the Caucasus. They came for the trip, the Wytschegda maid to solvichegodsk. This trip has interested my father: natural, human, economic and social conditions, the behavior of the inhabitants to the Germans, everything captivated him. In Russia, there was no State registry offices, but only Church weddings. So, there were among the civilian prisoners, many ungetraute marriages and unbaptized children. He performed marriages and Baptized, and held communion and worship services in public schools, which have been made available. Once a priest has helped with the sacrament of wine. Boswilliger and intolerant chauvinism is not met my father. I was under the impression that the Orthodox Church tins Protestants to the near than to the Catholics. The head priest of the main Church gave me during an Easter visit to the Osterkuß, because I was a Lutheran and not Catholic. A detailed report of my father about his trip went about the Swedish legation to the Foreign office in Berlin, and did he get a thank you.
In the summer of 1917 was married to Dr. Kuhne and his Orthodox bride-to-be out of Petrograd. A priest performed the Training, where we are bulkhead, both Protestants, the Industrial, and I, held as a witness about the bride and groom crowns. In the afternoon, my father blessed the young Couple in their apartment. After many years, after the death of his wife, said to me Dr. Kuhne, the blessing of my father, you have given them, had kept to the end. — As Kuhnes Ustyug in front of us left, he cried to us from the sleigh as Abschiedsgrufi: "you were a bright star in a dark time!"

Our family had grown to five people and a heavy burden for the house Paetz. So we took a chance and rented a 3-room flat. To get everything done, to provide the two small children, to wash the Wash and coils, even in the Winter — then in the hole in the ice in the river, to heat the bath-room, etc., we had to take a second nice girl from the village. The Furniture we got part of the owner of the house, part of Paetzens. Although the apartment was clean, there was in it but the big black cockroaches. This summer I've been to Baron Manteuffels invitation a week with him in Vyatka. I went to ship the Sukhona down to Kotlas and then with animal Balm to Vyatka. — At the port of Kotlas, there was heavy traffic. This gutgewachsene worker fell to me, which proved to be Persian. In Vyatka, and I also visited Pastor Paul Neander, who was prison inspector, and got to know his little daughter Irene. It is during the Revolution on the road murdered. — The political situation came to a head. The failures at the Front, the war fatigue, awakened everywhere a growing discontent. The abdication of Nicholas II. and the renunciation of his brother Mikhail to the succession, that it came to a democratic government. All hopes were directed at the social Democrats Kerensky, but was turned off by the radical wing under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky.
It is a magnet, then, was the world in which we lived at that time. However, the average Burger is more used to his work. And in the remote Ustyug, the school went to live with his Gang. Once the school had to compete in a political Assembly of the people in the square in front of the Cathedral. All of the teachers and pupils were decorated with red ribbons. The French teacher saw that I wore no and offered me one, and also the Director advised. I turned it down, you track me to bloody. The other warned, but to me, nothing happened. Around Christmas, a General teachers meeting of the circle, a new Board of seven members was elected. I was among the seven. As the Board was constituted, rejected both the colleague Basilewsky, as well as the newly selected school Board chair. He was carrying me. It seemed to me Laugh. I mentioned, the other all the social-Democrats or social-revolutionare were, I however, hour even further to the right than the cadets. How should I represent you? The fact I don't work question: if, because, with you? I was certainly ready. So I was elected unanimously, and let me uberrumpeln. That I entered a hot floor, I was later clear. At the time of my departure, the Director, it meant that I wasn't going away. In this Ann, I had can me burn the fingers!!
But I do not back think reluctant to this half a year. In the Board smooth, it appeared to be working Together. I had to direct the meetings of the Board, to lead the ongoing operations, occasional reports for written in the press and learned some things. At my farewell, it regretted the Fund General Director, it did allow me to work well together. — The teachers at the grammar school kept in General his attitude. But the still young mathematics teacher, a worker's son, Lafite, one day, a gathering of colleagues in a private apartment without the Director, and stimulated action to his dismissal. He reasonable his proposal to the Director of product conservative, Yes reaktionar and prints, especially the free person of his teacher. Well, the Director treated younger teachers something from the top down, but a conscious, under print, the person I have observed. A colleague asked whether the Director had also taken me under pressure and as the it spoke to denied it, declared it to be the same, it's kame, therefore, that I have objected to on the first day to the Director. A procedure of the College against the Director was rejected. The school continued to work, but with the time you felt the restlessness of the conditions. I also had to suffer, is not without its own fault, because I anpafite me the altered conditions.
In my class two Schuler not made, covered in the hour with other things. An "insufficient" on censorship was included with the Protest. The class was shocked, and left the room. You had me actually want to be locked in. — In another case, the class refused a representation of an hour continued to participate, as provided the day is a Latin-hour goods. As I walked away, brushed by me a me subsequently ejected stucco chalk. — I was at the school, no support and my work. With the help of the teachers ' conference and in consultation with the parents and school representation, it came to an apology to the class and the headlight of the chalk. The father was given to him by the Kinobesueh, as I had said, at his request, of the son's services were deficient. — But the two main culprits are not met. Mr Basilewsky jumped in, singing to my class and gave me his pleasant higher class. The sixth-former thought to me.
The Director's position was difficult. In order to consolidate it, was called a General parents meeting. The atmosphere was tense. The prudent elements, it is a vote of confidence for the Director to enforce. He thanked for it, by he knelt to orientah cher custom low and verbeugend with the forehead on the floor touched. The scene was embarrassing, it was no doubt that the new power fields of the commander-in replacements and significant innovations to every area of Life, including those of education, were to make. The Revolution should be constantly deepened. The discomfort vergrofierte.
The head of the land registry Department at the district court of Wilpert said goodbye to me, I had to recognize that the Russians were tolerant and benign people, because I have met want to be in Ustyug much friendly. The Director, after the birth of our son, I had told him nothing had, eme aid of 150 Rub. in the case of the government. — When you are departure to ship our two Magde, urn "Wilfriduschko accompanied us" to be allowed to once again wear. In front of the front door, a young bride-to-be uberraschte us couple from an Estonian settlement in grofierer removal of Ustyug. Had heard that there was a Protestant Pastor, goods, and asked my father to trust you. Not enough time to do this, we had to go up to the ship. My father suggested them to the next stop instead. His Estonian was not enough zurfreien speech, but the Trauvokabular he mastered. So he married them in a larger cabin with a rich German Lord and me as witnesses, made them the certificate to the Pastor in the city of Yaroslavl, on the go, you should get the marriage certificate, and the deeply satisfied Couple dismissed at the next mooring.
It was a beautiful trip on the comfortable boat, the Sukhona maid to Vologda, to high, partly wooded Banks along. In Tojma we saw the Turkish prisoners of war, and it was told that during the construction of the Murmansk railway, especially many of the osterreichische were prisoners of war perished. — When transferring from the ship to the train in Vologda, the accompanying German civil prisoners helped us. According to Petrograd, we were smooth. We found a property in the mass of the headquarters of the German Annen-Church school. A jolt of transport of the Baltic States was initiated, the list is already submitted. Baron Meyendorff had for us a supplementary list to submit to the Soviet government and made us the onward journey after a short stay. Strange it was, here at the building of the German Commission a black-and-white to see the red Flag and in the streets homecoming German Knegsgefangenen ends meet in Uniform. The food in Petrograd very tight. So the widow of the Admiral, could Jessen us only dunne Place, from potato skins baked with a little flour, to offer, and we were glad to help some, as the Director of Igel Anne school, with bread, which we needed for the trip. Some of it we left my brother Otto, who could not make the trip, unfortunately, and was hoping to be able to still have some help. As he wanted to happen in December of the border, he was recognized by the Latvian red guard units surrounds as Solm his father arrested and sent to Petrograd, where he died in December 1918 in the prison hospital. My cousin came in the nick of time on the border. — Exciting the journey was to the Baltic train station. The uberfullte tram car drove, as our four year old daughter was in the car. A travelling lady, the ubersah the situation, called out to us, you'll take the child to the station, where we found the Small. In a good car, we came on the same day, Russian soldiers, accompanied with a Baron Kaulbars as a transport Fuhrer uber Toroschino, the Russian border crossing point in front of Pltskau, which was occupied by the Germans, on the EN-mark station line. In the middle of the track, the train stopped, and two German officers appeared. We breathed a sigh of relief! In Pskov the train station with the girl was decorated Andes, and a "Welcome". The next day it went on without a stay of up to Wolmar, and from there, in my father's parsonage Salis — we were home!!
The homecoming had not in peace, — me, of course, in the school work, but also to the country's military — my father in the Martyr's death.
All mi services of the home!