The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-08
HOW REDS KILLED
Death of Gar and His Family
Described by TOlstoy.
BOlshevists Murdered Them
Many Others Meet Fate.

The following story of the death of
the tsar was reported by Count Toll
stoy in the Russian paper. "Vremya."
1.-The chairman of the Soldiers and
Workers council was the first to vote
for the execution. He was a work
man named Beloborodoff After him
voted Jurofski, chairman of the spe-
cial commission. When the sentence
was pronounced and signed by all
these, two men visited the house of
Ignatieff, an engineer, where the royal
family awaited execution. party of
Red Guards accompanied them. They
needed no time to glance at the writ
ten sentence of death, but greeted the
verbal announcement with loud
cheers.
'Thereupon the Red Guard, with
noisy tread and a clatter of weapons,
burst into the room where the tsar
was sleeping. When the tsar and his
wife heard the uproar they immedi-
ately understood what was afoot and
at once rose and hurried into their
clothes. The tsar himself helped to
put a military uniform on his heir,
and all then knelt in prayer. The
grand duchesses hurried in terror to
their side, and the tsar's heir burst
| into tears, tried to stand, but fell
down, whereupon the tsar broke off
his prayers and took his invalid son
| into his arms. The tsarina remained
on her knees praying. At this mo-
| ment Jurofski, followed by armed Red
| Guards entered the room. The Baron
ess Buxhevden. terrified by the up
roar, ran to the tsarina and fell at her
feet, in convulsive Mysteries. Jurofski
moved toward the tsar and, with dew
| ilish glee, said, L see you have pre-
pared everything. The tsar answered,
| yes, 1 am ready But our visit con-
| ", ad InrnfSEi
| rough tones continuing, We want
your wife and your whole brood to eX-
| terminate them.
| Shot One After Another.
| "Then, with a wave of the hand, he
called upon the Red Guards to take
the whole family away, adding, For
ward with them, and no nice
speeches. The Red Guard surround
ed the condemned family and forced
them from the room, the Tsar going
first with his son, who had by this
time tainted in his arms. The Tsa1
vas as pale as death and trembling
but quickly recovered his self-posses-
sion. The Grand Duchesses and
| Baroness Buxhevden sobbed heart
rendingly while being dragged by the
| Red Guards down into the cellar OF
the house, where the executions were
to take place.
"At the staircase leading below the
condemned family met another group
including their personal physician
Botkin, Madame Schneider, and also
those who read aloud to Tsarina
Prince Dolgorouky and Count Tatist-
chef. You too said the Tsar, or
seeing Botkin, who trembled but could
utter no word.
lowing to the Red Guards feal
that the rifle shots in such close
space between the tiled walls nigh
fly back, they used revolvers an(
shot down the condemned people one
after another. Jurofski and the Rec
Guards later said the Tsarina was thu
first to be shot, then the Crane
| Duchesses, and the Tsar last of all
The bodies were thrown on to a motto
lorry, and the same night taken to ;
disused pit shaft just outside the town
After being soaked with oil, they wer
set on fire, after which the ashes an
smouldering bones were covered witt
earth"
A worse fate than the Cars is nov
overtaking thousands of his late sub
jectS.