ABSTRACT
Koba was known among the working-class population of Baku. The chief of the Tiflis police, Chirinkin, the captain of gendarmes, Karvazine, the colonel of gendarmes, Martynov, and the chief of the Baku police, Gourov, were beginning to feel worried by the activities of the mysterious Totomiantz, who could always fall back on his alibi as accountant in the petroleum offices at Mantachev. Stalin spent three weeks in Vienna and worked with Bukharin, who, being a good German scholar, translated some of the work of the Austrian Social-Democrats, Karl Renner and Bauer. On the 15 February Stalin received an alarming letter from St. Petersburg. The police had arrested Sverdlov, who had replaced him as editor of Pravda. On the 15 March, 1908, Karvazine reported that Totomiantz was none other than Joseph Djugachvili, for whom the police had been searching. On the 25 March Djugachvili was arrested and sent to the Baku jail, a prison with a bad reputation.
