“In the summer of 1868, all of us, the Lower Danube consuls in Galati, Izmail and Tulcea, received through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a copy of a lithographed note from the investigator of one of the eastern provinces about the escape from this province of the Old Believer Alexander Ivanov Maslyaev, who was there under the supervision of the local police , and about his murder for the purpose of robbery of one almost completely blind old woman, who, in the words of the investigator’s note, was the killer’s benefactor. The details of this, set out in the note, presented Maslyaev in an unattractive way...”