| A number of old czarist agents and diplomats versed in Eastern affairs were cajoled or conscripted into the service. |
| It seemed as if the czarist Government had every reason to depend upon the Cossacks. |
| Over the next 50 years, hundreds of thousands of Chechens and Circassians were relocated to various parts of the czarist empire. |
| Seven among them were awarded St. George's crosses, the highest and most coveted military order in czarist Russia. |
| The bureaucratic czarist regime finally broke down in March, 1917, as soon as the revolution started. |
| But the fact that we were delivering over Poland to the mercies of a czarist Government was not secret. |
