KRONSTADT

or BRASSO (45° 38’ N., 25° 36’ E.), town, Transylvania, Rumania; chief manufacturing and commercial town of Transylvania; cloth, leather, cement, candles. During the World War, occupied by Rumanian troops, Aug. 29, 1916; retaken by Austro-German forces, Oct., 1916. Pop. 41,000. seaport, ‘fortre , and great naval arsenal, Ru ia; ice-bound from December till end of May; headquarters of Ru ian Admiralty. After Ru ian revolution local government was taken over, June, 1917, by Committee of Workmen and Soldiers Delegates, who for a time defied the provisional government. Pop. 68,200. VICH, PRINCE (1842-1921), Ru ian author and revolutionary; b. at Moscow. In 1864, he undertook a geographical survey expedition through Manchuria; visited Switzerland, 1872, and joined the International Working Men’s A ociation, but subsequently became an anarchist and devoted his time to spreading refo.m propaganda; was frequently arrested. Made his home in England from 1886, but returned to Ru ia after the revolution, 1917. Among his numerous publications are Fields, Factories and Workshops, 1899, 5th ed. 1904; Memoirs of a Revolutionist, 2nd ed. 1907; The Great Revolution, 1908; and Terror in Ru ia, 1909. E.), town, Posen, Pru ia. Pop. 15,000. BARONESS VON (1764-1824), Ru ian religious mystic; b. Riga (Livonia); married Baron K., 16 years her senior; visited France and published Valerie (novel), 1803; then Switzerland and Germany, and came in contact with Adam Miller, a peasant prophet, Jung-Stilling, Jean Frédéric Fontaines, and other religious fanatics; gave herself up to preaching, and prophesying; settled at Schliichten (Baden), 1815; had interviews with Alexander of Ru ia, greatly influenced him, and was the supposed author of the Holy Alliance; d. Karasu Bazar (Crimea). NES PAULUS (1825-1904), Pres. of Transvaal; 6. in Cape Colony; took part in Great Trek, 1836; rapidly rose to power in Transvaal; led Boers in 1881, when they a erted thelr independence, and He chs pres. in 1883; re-elected, 1888, 1893, 1898; his rooted hostility to the British and Uitlanders generaily precipitated the 8. African War of 1899-1902; fled to Europe, 1900, first settling in Holland, and lastly at Mentone. Imbued with strong puritanical spirit, he ‘was an ardent Dutch-Afrikander patriot, a a ‘slim’ diplomatist; pub. Memories, #.), town, Transvaal, 8. Africa. White pop. 15,000.