The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-12-13
Cd Underwood K Underwood.

halfs altoeether. Everywhere har-
messed troikas were waiting for us in
iiies. We stopped our carriages In
parallel files. thanks to which the
change was accom- plished very
quickly.
The convoy ACCOMMODATING the cor
tege consisted of thirt7 FIVE men,
hfteen cavalrymen and twenty infan-
try In addition. large partois were
posted at all the batting stations
This journey caused very little fa-
tigue to Nicholas Romanor. On the
whole eS-czar's health has great
y improved during the last year. Fie
mas worked a lot in the omen air cut
ting wood digging in his gard en,
crowins vegetables in word, he
was feeling extremely we'll His COM
pieNion was perfectly healthy Alex
andra feodoroyna felt much graatar
fatigue. but tried not TO show IT,
Insults Eyn"trcd,
they We're very much struck BY the
way in which we treated them. They
had feared insults and ill-trea+mapt
from us. bur tho convoy. to man.
maintained perfectly correct att
tnde toward them. and not single
rude or Insulting word was INDUCED
in, Our mutual rell.fens were com
pieteiy unceremonial. inst as bntweea
ordinary citizons. Alexandra Fec.
eorevnaz eazed at MS open-eyed hut
Nicholas quickly accommodated him
self 10 us, and - havcd himself quite
simply. From Tt",en we proceeded
ny IN" rat'NF7N- The convov was In
creased to hundred and sixty piea
The journey from Tumen 10 Ekaterin-
burg was eceom nlished without any
incidents whatever
Romanoff bore the Journey ex-
tremely welh He was evisien.iv
chieHy interested in three ma tiers: his
! FAMILY, the weather and food He "A
: very much attached 70 his family. and
/ thinks of them all the time He did
not speak AZ all ahou. uolitics or The
war L. of course did not consider
1t possible 10 hold any conversation
upon political subjects with The Tsar
but II @as Characteristic TINT he him.
sse5 Hs<ma Il q SdentlH I NET. Interested ~
'slitse ~ 'sls,esst I.ssss, MI Nj esss~s
are conferred IN tie domain of ordinary
INTERESTS and narr"v family affairs.
Thought Ex-Cxar JOKING.
Only once did orr conversation
t"u"h unon topic outside these
limits. We We're Messing Il chprch
Nicholas is very pious. and on such
occasions he ALWAYS crosses hifese,f
J" hen we passed the church he made
''fii" tV'HaTh ao"ut f@tgtOn--I DOM
remember exactly what it was
answered that no, heinz personally
religious. ! admitted the right % every
one TO complete freedom OF con-
science. and would |et every man be-
lieve in what he liked
Ronaaaof exclaimed: Fancy. 7 hoId
exactly the same views | iso rec
orEnize complete freedom of con.
science"
! I 1poked az I,i,s, ,uns.,...t =,
ne were Joking or trying to be cum
ming But his face wore such a sfn.
cere. expression that there remained
no doubt in my mind as 10 the alb
sence of any hidden thoughts
Generally during his journey I re-
ceiVed quito definite impression as
70 me amazing and extraordinary
limitations OF Nicholas Romanoff
Alexandria Ferodorovna is altogeth.
err different. She is very cunning and
proud. She has very strong inf,,i-
/ ence over her husband. During the
| whole journey she was extremely re-
I served. and for days together never.
LETT her compartment. She declined
10 receive the slightest attention from
us She carried this attitude to OK
tremes, The corridors of the trains
are. as ii is known very narrow. ana
~nen two persons meet in them one
has to make way
FORMER Empress AlOof.
Alexandra EaadaEeTaa,A ..-xfHtrr7-
thaf airy one of us should make way
10 her used to get up at FIVE in the
morning TO wash in the dressing room.
If on leaving the dressing room She
observed one of the convoy in the
corridor she returned to the dressing
room and sat there until the man had
moved out Of the way.
The daughter Marya yornr girl
Is completely undeveloped for her aRs,
or life in the wide sense of the word
she has not the slightest notion She
il also strongly under the influence of
her mother
When we arrived at Ekaterinburg
a large crowd Of people had gathered
at the station. The railwaymen had
evidently spread the rumor OF our !
arrival, The crowd was highly ex-
cited. The train stopped out at the
platform. but at a. certain distance
from it. As precautionary measure /
had ordered the doors OF the COM /
partment to be securely fastened ana
the blinds to he pulled down.
As soon as the train stopped my d.
tachment left the carriage and began
to press back the crowd. But they
refused to move.
shouts Of .Tsioodsuckcr."
Shouts arose of "ShowS us the blood
sucker"
I declared that II the crowd did not
dispense would have machine guns
turned upon them. That, however,
had no effect. The crowd -const4 ntiy
increased. in spite Of the patrols I
which I placed Al different parts Of /
the platform. then ordered that a
goods train waiting on the reserve !
line should be shuntcd between the
platform and our train. Under cover I
OF the goods train our train was re-
moved to another statioa- EkAkartn-1
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