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Adventure
Stamps
Iast Days
iOMANOPFS
ETHRONED "Autocrat of
All the Russias," Nicho
las Romanoff and his
Czarist family set out for
Siberian exile on a journey just
20 years ago that was to write
a bloody chapter in history.
On Aug. 14, 1917, at 6:10 a.
m., the perilous trip began. It
took two trains to accommodate
the travelers and their soldier
jailers to Tiumen, whence they
moved on to Tobolsk by river
steamer. On the 18th the boat
passed Pokrovskoie, birthplace
of Rasputin. Standing on the
deck the Czarina is said to have
recalled the prophecy of Ras
putin: "My death will be your
death." At Tobolsk the exiles re
mained Imprisoned until May of
the following year, when all were
transferred to Ekaterinburg.
From May 23 confinement in
the Ipatiev house in Ekaterin
burg became increasingly brutal.
Guards, on a high fence thrown
around the place, taunted the
royal family. The pent-up bit
terness of 300 years was boiling
over.
Came Tuesday night, July 16,
1918, when Jurovsky knocked at
Nicholas' door and ordered the
family to arise and dress. A few
minutes later and the seven
Romanoffs, accompanied by four
loyal aides, entered the narrow
cellar of the Ipatiev house.
Twelve guards at once surround
ed them simultaneously raising
their rifles. And as dawn broke
a little later, 12 guards came
out, leaving behind the bodies of
the last of the Romanoffs. Nicho
las appears on a 1913 stamp.
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