A MOSCOW STORY
MAX AVliO ARRESTED THE CZAR MOSCOW, October 14. A Soviet magazine, “The kittle Light,’’ reveals the story of the arrest of the Czar by Mstislavsky, a commander of soldiers deputed to the task by Soviet deputies, who had learned in 1917 that the provisional government would allow Nicholas to escape to Czarskoe Scloe, a city south of Petrograd. M’stilavsky, commanding detachments of infantry and machine gunners, seized the Czarskoe Seloe telegraph station and occupied the railway. He went to the palace alone, where he forced the officials to allow him to meet the Czar.
In the presence of a group of officers 'Nicholas, dressed in a military uniform, faced the visitor, With twitching shoulders and restless hands. He stared and walked away without having said a word. An officer told Mstilavsky that he should have uncovered if he had wished the Czar to speak. ‘The Romanoffs,” said the officer, “will remember this if they ever return to power.”
When ho had arrested the Czar Mstislavsky took good care that Nicholas and his family were forever removed from the possibility of reprisals.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3489, 27 October 1926, Page 8
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184A MOSCOW STORY Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3489, 27 October 1926, Page 8
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