THE LAST DAYS OF THE ROMANOVS 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 XBir YORK
HEORGE H, DORAN COMPANY PUBLISHERS NOTE During the night between
the i6th and 17th of July, 1918, the former Russian Emperor
Nicholas II, his family, as well as all the persons Attached to it,
were murdered by the order of the Yekaterinburg oviet of workmens
deputies. The news of this crime broke through the closed ring that
surrounded Bolshe vist Russia aad spread over the entire world. At
the end of July, 1918, the town of Yekaterin burg was taken from
the Bolsheviks by the forces of the Siberian Government. Shortly
after their occu pation of the district an investigation was
ordered to be made of the circumstances attendant on the mur der. A
judicial examination therefore took place of the witnesses
connected with the life of the imperial family at Czarskoe-Selo,
Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by N. A. Sokoloff, the Investigating
Magistrate for Cases of Special Importance of the Omsk Tribunal.
Upon the fall of the Kolchak regime, copies of the depositions were
taken from the archives by M. George Gustav Telberg, Professor of
Law at the University of Saratov and Minister of Justice at Omsk,
when he fled with the other ministers of the Omsk government. These
combined statements re construct the life-story of the imperial
family from the time of the emperors abdication until the murder
PUBLISHERS NOTE of himself, his wife, his children, including the
czare vitch, and their few faithful servants in IpatiefFs house at
Yekaterinburg. Thetranslator has endeavored to preserve the orig
inal simplicity, and in some cases the crudeness and lack of
education apparent in the witnesses. Colonel Kobylinsky, M.
Gilliard and Mr. Gibbes are edu cated men who apparently gave their
evidence with out displaying any outward emotion, but, though they
did not exaggerate the sufferings of thd imperial family, they were
not eye-witnesses of the final hours of their captivity. The
testimony of the soldiers strikes a more sin ister note. Two of
them witnessed most of the daily happenings at IpatiefFs house, but
they display cer tain evidences of pity and of having been well-dis
posed towards the prisoners whose murder they condemned. Indeed
these men are most insistent that the crime was committed by the
Letts. The third soldier Medvedeff took an active part in the
murder. The narrative of Mr. Robert Wilton which sup plements the
translations of the official records is, we think, a document of
incalculable value. Written by a man who for sixteen years was
correspondent for the London Times in Russia, and who not only
speaks Russian but was present throughout the inves tigation of the
scene of the murder and during the search for the relies, his story
has a poignancy and an intrinsic value that cannot be
overestimated. vi PUBLISHERS NOTE It is proper here to explain to
the reader that the contents of this volume as represented by the
Official Depositions in Part I and Mr. Robert Wiltons Nar rative in
Part II came into existence quite independ ently and without the
design, originally, of publish ing them together. Mr. Wilton, who
escaped from Siberia after the fall of the Kolchak Government, took
with him one of three copies of the dossier ofthe official
investigation. Upon this original source he based his story, adding
to it certain facts which he had personally gathered. By a most
fortunate circumstance, George H. Doran Company, who were preparing
for the press the depositions secured by M. George Gustav Telburg,
learned of Mr. Wiltons narrative, and arrangements were immediately
made to combine the records in one volume. As the two parts of the
book are from different sources, no effort has been made to secure
uniformity in certain minor variations in the spellings of proper
names...
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