- Trial of the 17 by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
a trial involving members of the People’s Will, held in the Special Session of the Senate in St. Petersburg from Mar. 28 (Apr. 9) to Apr. 5 (17), 1883. The defendants included M. F. Grachevskii, Iu. N. Bogdanovich, A. P. Pribyleva-Korba, Ia. V. Stefanovich, and P. A. Tellalov. The main charge was complicity in the terrorist acts of the People’s Will, including four attempts on the life of the ...
- Primrose League by Webster's
A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because primrose was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.
- Lathrop, George Parsons by Marissa Dunn
1851–98, American author, b. Near Honolulu; studied in Germany (1867–70). He was the husband of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Lathrop wrote A Study of Hawthorne. (1876), edited the Riverside edition of Hawthorne's works (1883), and adapted Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. For Walter Damrosch's opera (1896). His other writings include poems, Rose and Roof-tree. (1875 ...
- Goltz, Colmar, Freiherr von der by Michael Santos
1843–1916, Prussian field marshal and military historian. A soldier, he served in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). He later gained renown as a professor of military history. His writings include the much-celebrated Nation in Arms. (1883, tr. 1913). In Ottoman service from 1883 to 1896, he reorganized the Ottoman army. He was (1914) governor-general of ...
- Ferry, Jules by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Apr. 5, 1832, at St. Dié; died Mar. 17, 1893, in Paris. French political and state figure. Lawyer and publicist.Ferry was one of the leaders of the republican opposition in the corps législatif. In 1869 and 1870. After the September revolution of 1870, he became a member and secretary of the Government of National Defense, prefect of the department of the Seine, and, in November 1870, mayor ...