Fedor Linde, recorded his reaction to the first attempts at repression of the demonstrations near the Tauride Palace. “I saw a young girl trying to evade the galloping horse of a Cossack officer. She was too slow. A severe blow on the head brought her down under the horse’s feet. She screamed. It was her inhuman, penetrating scream that caused something in me to snap. [I] cried out wildly: ‘Fiends! Fiends! Long live the revolution. To arms! To arms! They are killing innocent people, our brothers and sisters!’
