“The teacher of the city two-year school Avenir Ivanovich Gorizontov, after the announcement of the manifesto on October 17, found himself in the position of a blind man whose cataracts were removed and he saw the free world. For ten years he lived peacefully with his mother in the provincial town of Kurdyum, teaching arithmetic, was in good standing with his superiors, went to classes carefully in the morning, and in the evenings courted young ladies on the city boulevard...”