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Though all the world knows that the late 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...
Author Kerensky's part in this book is to tell, from the point of view of a one-time Provisional Prime Minister of revolutionary Russia, the events following the Tsar's abdication that led to the royal family's removal to Tobolsk and thence to Ekaterinburg. Naturally he defends himself, excuses his powerlessness to save the Romanovs by putting the blame on England. Kerensky says he did everything he could to get the Tsar and his family out of Russia while there was still time, says that England offered them asylum and then, when everything was arranged...
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...
Acquitted. Samuel Insull, 75, deposed utilities tsar; of a charge that he embezzled $66,000 from one of his holding companies to bolster his brother Martin's stock-trading account; by a jury in Chicago's Criminal Court. It was his second trial & acquittal following the fall of his $3,000,000,000 utilities empire (TIME, Dec. 5 et ante...
...Mary, infant Jesus and St. John, was painted by Raphael about 1510 at Rome, acquired almost immediately by one of the early Dukes of Alba. His Duchess gave it to her doctor in payment of a bill. The doctor was later tried and acquitted of poisoning the lady. Tsar Nicholas I bought it in 1836 for $50,000 for his collection at the Hermitage. Badly cracked in being transferred from wood to canvas, the picture is in none too good condition, has been elaborately repainted, but because of its price and because there are only ten genuine Raphaels...