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THE LAST DAYS OF THE ROMANOVS
GEORGE GUSTAV TELBERG
AND
ROBERT WILTON
BY
GEORGE GUSTAV TELBERG
PROFESSOR OF LAW IN SARATOV UNIVERSITY AND FORMER MINISTER
OF JUSTICE OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
AT OMSK
AND
ROBERT WILTON
SPECIAL RUSSIAN CORRESPONDENT FOR
THE TIMES, LONDON
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
{iv}
COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA{v}
During the night between the 16th and 17th of July, 1918, the formerRussian Emperor Nicholas II, his family, as well as all the personsattached to it, were murdered by the order of the Yekaterinburg sovietof workmen’s deputies. The news of this crime broke through the closedring that surrounded Bolshevist Russia and spread over the entire world.
At the end of July, 1918, the town of Yekaterinburg was taken from theBolsheviks by the forces of the Siberian Government. Shortly after theiroccupation of the district an investigation was ordered to be made ofthe circumstances attendant on the murder. A judicial examinationtherefore took place of the witnesses connected with the life of theimperial family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by N. A.Sokoloff, the Investigating Magistrate for Cases of Special Importanceof the Omsk Tribunal.
Upon the fall of the Kolchak régime, copies of the depositions weretaken from the archives by M. George Gustav Telberg, Professor