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...MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS-Paul Bulygin-McBride...
...Tsar Nicholas II of All the Russias and his family were shot to death in a cellar in Ekaterinburg, few U. S. readers have heard the whole story. Though The Murder of the Romanovs embodies two strictly partisan points of view-its co-authors are Alexander Kerensky and Paul Bulygin, a onetime captain of the Imperial Life Guards-even Bolsheviks would probably admit that the main facts of the story are true.* Less because some of the details are gruesome than because the end is inevitably tragic, most readers will want to hear this retelling of old news that...
...Author Bulygin, no statesman but a soldier, also tried vainly to save the Tsar. After his White leader, General Kornilov, was killed and the decimated army was being reorganized. Bulygin made his way to Moscow in disguise, to organize a rescue for the Tsar. He got to Ekaterinburg, but was recognized as an officer, put in prison and would probably have been shot if he had not escaped. When he rejoined the Whites he was assigned to assist the late N. A. Sokolov, the official investigator of the Tsar's death. The White armies got to Ekaterinburg only nine...
When the Tsar and his family were moved from their quarters at Tobolsk to a more heavily guarded house in Ekaterinburg, says Bulygin. Moscow had already drawn up the plan for their deaths. As "Superintendent of the House of Special Purpose" came one Yurovsky. a "practical expert"; with him he brought ten Cheka gunmen (most of them Hungarian prisoners of war). At midnight. July 16. 1918 Yurovsky woke the Tsar and his household, asked them to come downstairs. Escorting them into a basement room, he told them that because of the approaching White armies it had been decided to move...
...findings became known, many a White would have given his right hand to lay his other on Yurovsky. the Russian who had killed the Little Father of all Russians. Two of Yurovsky's brothers were later captured by the Whites, but what became of Yurovsky himself Bulygin does not say. Sokolov's published report raised a storm among the Whites, because some of them still hoped the royal family were still alive somewhere, and because some were backing fakes. But Author Bulygin smiles bitterly at the hopes, laughs bitterly at the pretenders...
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