THE ROMANOFFS
WHOLE FAMILY M--ITRD,ERED
A VALET'S STORY
AMSTERDAM, December 5
.The Kieff newspaers. publish a story given by a valet. of the .former Empress of Russia of the murder of the entire' Romanoff family by Bolsheviks.
He states that the fami'y lived in a single room of a convent in Ekaterinburg for weekst before the murder under a guard of Bolsheviks.
On July 17th the family were taken to the cellar- of the convent,- placed against the "wall, and- shot. The murderers granted the request of the Emperor that -his wife who was ill should die in his arms.
.According to the valet, the Grand Duches . Tatiana was only i .wounded, by the allots and was killed by blows from rifle' butts. All the bodies were buried.
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Grey River Argus, 7 December 1918, Page 3
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