A MOSCOW STORY
MAN WHO ARRESTED CZAR MOSCOW, Oct. 11. A Soviet magazine, "The Little Light," reveals the story of the arrest of the Czar by Mstislavsky, a commander of soldiers deputed to the (ask by Soviet deputies, who had learned in 1917 that the provisional government would allow Nicholas to escape to Tzurskoe- Seloc, a city south of Pctrograd. . . Mstisl.avsky, commanding detachments of infantry and machine gunners, seized the Tzarskoe Seloe telegraph .station and occupied the railway. He went to the palace alone, whore he forced officials to allow him to meet the Czar. In the prcsenco 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 Mstislavsky that he should have uncovered if he had wished the Czar to speak. '' The Romanoffs," said the officer, "will remember this if over they return to power."
, When he had 'arrested the Czar Ms'tislavsky took good care that Nicholas and his family were forever removed from the possibility of reprisals.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 9
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