Even the Tsar's four confidants were not entirely genuine confidants, as one of them was an old friend of Arthur—the loyal Constitutional Soldier Colonel Shubinsky.
On the interrogation committee's list, Arthur had good relations with both Chairman Duke Sergei Golitsyn and Colonel Shubinsky; with the former due to their close acquaintance from that famous Moscow University lecture, and with the latter, they shared a bond from their mischievous escapades together.
As for General Star, he was a straightforward veteran who participated in the Patriotic War of 1812. Arthur also recalled that when he first met Herzen in Leipzig, the young man mentioned that this enthusiastic old general had once covered for Moscow University students who supported the exiled student Sungurov, and helped pass on the donations collected for Sungurov from the students.
