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...ambitious, she read hard, got herself an education. Catherine's only use was as brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband would not or could not serve her, the breeders did not much care who did. When she foaled her first-born (afterwards the mad Tsar Paul) it was of little interest to anyone but Catherine that its sire was one Saltykov. The child was immediately taken away from her by the Empress...
...head of an Army officers' junta that promised to end political bickerings in Bulgaria. Last week these two had hardly set out before Gueorguieff adherents pulled so many potent wires that the Cabinet of Premier General Petko Zlateff collapsed, resigned. The Army clique was hopelessly split. Result: Little Tsar Boris found himself again the strongest man in Bulgaria. His Majesty called in a 70-year-old friend of the Royal Family, M. Andrew Tocheff, seasoned Bulgar diplomat. When he failed to win support for a Cabinet after three days, the Tsar made him Premier anyhow by decree. "This will...
...Army clique began fulminating so many different plots to overthrow the "transitory Cabinet" that this week Tsar Boris called a score of Army bigwigs to the Palace. They were still defiant. Whereupon the Little Tsar summoned a detachment of military school cadets who herded the grizzled officers into confinement...
...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...
Soon the executioners entered. Yurovsky announced the sentence of death, cut short the Tsar's agonized protest with a bullet from his revolver. The Cheka gunmen opened fire. Last to fall was the parlormaid, who shielded herself with the jewel-packed pillow, ran screaming back & forth. She was killed with bayonets. When they examined the bodies they found that the Grand Duchess Anastasia had merely fainted. When she had been shot, the executioners wrapped the bodies in cloth, loaded them on a truck and carried them ten miles to an abandoned mine, where they were dismembered, burnt on gasoline...