Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
REPORT OF CARS DEATH
IS RELATED BY COUNTESS
Monarch Accepted Death Like Man,
She Says Slayer Declared-No Men,
ton Made of Daug hters.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, August 20.-No first
hand account of the execution of
Nicholas. last Gear of all the Russias,
has ever been printed in detail. Only
bare official summaries have appeared.
The Car was executed the night of
July 16, 1918. The next morning
Yurowsky, special commissary against
unter-revolution, himself said to
have fired the revolver shots which
killed the Car, met a young Russian
girl He was nervous and excited.
He had to tell what he had done. SO
the actual eXecutioner of Nicholas told
his own story in the presence of the
young Russian girl.
Now, nine years later, the Russian
girl is in New York. She is Countess
Eugene Godniowa. Under different
name she is engaged in the practice
of dentistry.
Countess Tells Story.
Some Of the sentences Yurowsky
used, according to Countess Godniowa,
were: Russia Is saved; the Car Is
killed"
TT was not Nicholas I killed. l
killed an obstruction In the path OF
peaceful Russia
Two gave him a fair trial. We told
him he had betrayed Russia. We told
him he had been the cause OF millions
Of deaths"
Much to our surprise, he accepted
the sentence Of death like a man.
81 fired five shots into his body"
Russia, in the months following the
| October, 1917, revolution, was as near
complete chaos as it Is possible for q
tr
cate Countess Godniowa's story dc
| not and could not, in the nature OF
things, exist. The story, however
agrees in all particulars with the Off
cial Soviet report on the execution
made in 1923, and adds new and
| significant details.
| Countess Godniowa was In charge
Of a group of nurses in the region OF
the Ural Mountains.
Feared Rescue Plot.
With a group of high Soviet Off
| Gals, she was making an inspection
| tour of her district. Their train ar
rived at Ekaterinburg the evening OF
July 16. They slept on the train. 1t
was evident the town was filled with
| suppressed excitement, but no one
could tell them what was happening.
|
fined in Ekaterinburg in the house
of special appointment. the home OF
an engineer, Ipatief. At that time
| two counter-revolutionar armies, one
from the west and one from the east.
were drawing nearer. The official
Soviet report says the execution was
precipitated by the discovery of plot
to rescue the car.
| On this point Countess Godniowa
has new and definite testimony. One
of her friends of pre-revolutionary
days was a Capt. N. N. Matuchin. an
officer in the imperial guard. With
the revolution he had turned Bolshe
vik and was railway commissar OF
the Urals. He still was received by
the czarists. however, and on occa'
sion acted as Soviet spy.
According to the official Soviet re.
port, the group Of nurses in the Urals
occupied similar position as work
ers in the Bolshevik cause, but were
friends of the monarchists. Countess
Godniowa says she saw Matuchin
frequently. and from him learned he
had discovered Prince A. Andrenni.
koff had secretly modified 1000 for.
mer imperial guard officers in the
vicinity of Ekaterinburg. and that
July II or IS had been selected for