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A prisoner of the Reds

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Achinsk, 4

Advertising, science of, 97

Afghanistan, Amir of, envoys from Lenin, 223

Agafonov, Gregory, 137

Alapaievsk, 83

Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia:

murdered, 132-138, 172;

cremated, 154-166;

mode of concealing her jewels, 158, 167;

life at Tobolsk, 183;

attends Mass, 184;

birth of a son, 328;

appearance, 329;

passion for jewelry, 329

Alexis, Tsarevich of Russia:

at Ekaterinburg, 127;

murdered, 132-138, 172;

cremated, 154-166;

lameness, 173;

education, 178, 180

Alexis, Tsarevich of Russia, prophecy of, 136

Alferov, Michael, 155

Anarchists, doctrine, 202

Anastasia, Grand Duchess:

murdered, 132-138, 172;

cremated, 154-166

Anthony, Bishop, 264

Balabanova, 205

Barrakatula, Professor, at Moscow, 222

Bednota, the, 293

Birkmanns, John, 203, 205

Bleezdale, Mr., 275

Blücher, General von, in command at Novo-Nikolaevsk, 84, 335

Bogdanov, 326

Bogotol, 21

Boivoud, Victor, 140

Bokhara, revolution, 223

Bolotnaya, 12

Bolsheviks, the, policy, xi, 42-46, 77, 106, 113, 292;

atrocities, 37;

characteristics, 47, 49, 54, 62, 244;

use of the colour red, 64;

elections, 119;

wish to evangelize English workmen, 203;

International propaganda, 204, 206;

revolutionary views, 210-219, 286;

literature, 212-215;

theatres, 217;

“atmosphere,” 232;

news agency, 252-261;

creed, 289;

seductive appeal of their theory, 294;

emblems, 294;

position, 298;

number, 306;

journalism, 313;

list of instructions, 316;

modernism, 318-320;

system of education, 319

Bolshevism, vii, ix, 24, 339;

system of government, 53, 332;

Socialist journalists, 90;

resemblance to Puritanism, 108;

the Red Star of, 112;

war-cry, 114;

result of, 320, 333

“Boris Gudenov,” 194

Botkin, Dr., 127, 132, 181;

murdered, 136;

cremated, 154-166

British, the, characteristic of frankness, 280

British Army, 324, 340

British Military Mission:

at Omsk, 1;

flight from, 1-22;

captured at Krasnoyarsk, 22

British Railway Mission at Omsk, 1

British Red Cross supplies, 68

Buchan, John, 199

Budyonin, career, 338, 339

Bugatch, 21

Burke, Edmund, on the French Terrorists, 248, 326

“Butter General,” 6

Butter, price of, 123

“Byloe,” 30

Carlyle, Thomas, 286, 340

Carroll, Lewis, “Jabberwock,” 104

Cheliabinsk, 201, 336

Chesterton, G. K., 90, 91, 199

Chicherin, 63;

assistants, 199;

inspects telegrams by radio, 247;

mode of living, 247;

characteristics, 248;

office, 249;

nationality, 268

Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston, 98

Clarke, Colonel, 95

Clynes, J. R., 151

Communism:

principles, 24, 53, 88, 274;

patriarchal, 62;

result of the system, 120-123, 317;

modernism, 318-320

Communist Youth, League of, 117, 152

Communists, craving for propaganda, 204;

number, 299

Constantinople, 222

Corpses, treatment of, 15, 33, 35

Cromwell, Oliver, 108

Czechs, the:

conquest of Siberia, xi;

advance on Ekaterinburg, 168;

messenger service, 201

Daily Herald, the, 78, 91, 296

D——, Mr. Justice, 44

Demedova, 127, 132;

murdered, 137;

cremated, 154-166

Denikin, General, defeat, x, 88

Derevenko:

murdered, 158, 177;

charges against, 181

Derzhinsky, M., head of the extraordinary commission, 48, 268

Dickinson, Mr., 90

Dolgoruki, Prince, 183;

murdered, 171

Dongola, the, 310

Dostoievsky, extract from, 290

Dovgolevsky:

electrical engineer, 76;

study of social questions, 77;

on the Russian workmen, 339

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 199

Dryagina, Vassa, 168

Dutov, General, 326

Ekaterinburg, 74, 88, 92, 108;

measures against typhus, 95-97;

Propaganda Hall, 109-113, 312;

names of streets, 115;

number of Government offices, 115;

of professional unions, 116;

museum, 118;

meeting of the Provincial Soviet, 119;

libraries, 120;

eating-houses, 120;

working of the Communist theory, 120-123;

Government Provisioning Department, 122;

Ippatievsky Dom, 124-129;

number of newspapers, 257;

conditions in, 323

Eliot, Sir Charles, 85

Engineers, insufficient pay and position, 81

En Route, the, 93, 100

Ermakov, Peter, 165

Esthonia, peace with, 292

Extraordinary Commission, institution, 300

Falk, electrical engineer, 269

Feinberg, Commissar, 296

Feinberger, Press censor, 242, 246

Finland, 298;

International propaganda, 293

Florinsky, Mr., 216

Francis, Mr., American Ambassador, 241

Freemasonry, in Russia, 268

French Canadians, 302

French Press:

corruption, 259;

Revolution, result of the, 295

Gendrikova, Countess, murdered, 171

George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd, 102;

saying of, 300;

policy in Ireland, 302

German envoys, in Russia, 226, 231;

prisoners of war, in Moscow, 230

Gialliard, Peter, 157, 180

Gibbs, Mr., tutor to the Tsarevich, 176

Goldmann, Emma, 203, 205

Goldstein, Colonel, 285

Gold train, 6, 311

Goloshokin:

Commissar at Ekaterinburg, 129, 131, 144;

announces the murder of the Tsar, 130;

at the burial of the Imperial Family, 140, 154, 159-166;

death, 148

Gorbunov, 139, 164

Graves, General, 85

Great Britain, result of a Soviet Government, 197

Gulyaev, the Commissar, 169

Hahn, Lieutenant, 326

Hand-shaking, fine on, 62, 92

Horrocks, Captain, 46, 49, 57, 69

Horses:

number of ownerless, 65-67;

death, 66

Husie, Mr., 221

India, British rule in, 222

Internationalism or anti-nationalism, 288, 291, 292

Ippatiev, Mr., 124

Ippatievsky Dom, 124-129, 161;

plan of, 129

Ireland, condition of, 112

Irkutsk, 71

Irtysh River, 1

Isetsky factory, 159;

plan of, 161;

mine, 154, 155, 160

Ivan, the train conductor, 24

Ivanov, Feodor, 169

Ivanov:

at Ekaterinburg, 117;

revolutionary views, 118;

presides at a meeting of the Provincial Soviet, 119

Ivantsev, Colonel, 19

Izhevsky Division, number of deaths from typhus, 32, 321

Izvestia, the, 328

Izvoshchik, or driver, 14, 48, 195

James I., King, 302

James, Private, 13

Janin, General, 85

Japan, 298

Jews, number of, in the Soviet Government, 267

Johnston, Colonel, 84

Journalists, foreign, in Russia, 233-240, 243

Kalmykov, 36

Kapp, abortive revolution in Berlin, 251

Karlin, Dr., 205

Keeley, Mr., 228, 335

Kendrikova, 180

Kensit, John, 112

Kent, the, 310

Kerzhentsev, Comrade:

“The Irish Revolution,” 111;

director of the Rosta, 256, 258

Kew Gardens, carnivorous plant, 320

Klementovich, Colonel, 76

Knox, General Sir Alfred, 85;

leaves Omsk, 1;

military attaché at Tannenberg, 8

Kobylinsky, Colonel, 181

Kochenovo, Red Cross train, burnt, 311

Kolchak, Admiral:

defeat of his army, viii, 8, 88, 124;

gold reserve train, 6, 311;

retreat, 15, 17, 67;

War Office at Omsk, 85;

cartoon, 110

Kopchiki Forest, 153, 160;

village, 161

Korea, independence of, 220

Korff, 22

Kostusov, Alexander:

at the cremation of the Imperial Family, 140, 154, 159-166;

discovery of relics, 163

Krasnoyarsk, 8, 22, 41;

system of registration, 52, 56, 60;

Concentration Camp, 58;

cases of typhus, 58, 320;

Red fête, 64;

number of ownerless horses, 65-67;

of English uniforms, 67

Krassin Mission, 80

Kremlin, 252

Krivtsov, Alexander, 165

Kropotkin, Prince, ix

Kukhtenkov, Prokofy, 164, 165

Labashev, Leonidas, 138, 164

Labour Army:

scheme, 74, 83, 88, 92, 105, 334, 336;

failure, 106

Landau-Aldanov, “Lenin und der Bolshewismus,” 290

Lenin, M., 48, 90, 108;

pictures of, 113, 114;

interview with Yurovsky, 143;

appearance, 143, 224;

Bolshevik envoys, 222;

speech at the Ninth Communist Convention, 224;

day’s work, 225;

character of his censorship, 245;

belief in his dogma of internationalism, 288, 291;

characteristics, 289, 290, 329, 330;

failure of his policy, 303;

fanaticism, 330;

style of eloquence, 330;

gospel of hate, 331

Lenov, Peter Alexeivich, 139, 164

Lermontov: “Borodino,” 303;

“Demon,” 178

Leroy-Beaulieu, P., on the Jewish mind, 102

Letemin, Kouzma Ivanovich, 167, 171

Letemin, Michael Ivanovich, 167

Litvinov, interest in foreign journalists, 240

Litvinov-O’Grady, agreement, 307

Lockhart, Mr., Consul-General in Moscow, 103

London, increase of the postal rate, 198

Lovatnykh, Basil, 165;

at the cremation of the Imperial Family, 140, 154, 159-166;

discovery of relics, 163

Lukhanov, 138, 164

Lunacharsky, Commissar of Fine Arts, 90, 218, 293

Lvov, Mr., 200

Lvov, Prince, 200

Macdonald, Ramsay, 151

Macready, General Sir Nevill, 71

Makarov:

effect of Bolshevik oratory, 25;

at Krasnoyarsk, 325

Mamantov, S., 337, 339

Mamontov-Sibiriak, 115

Mamyshkin, Sergius Pavlov, 165

Manchester Guardian, the, 91

Mansur, Dr., agent of the Soviet, 222

Maria, Grand Duchess:

murdered, 132-138, 172;

cremated, 154-166

Martel, Captain, 52, 54, 64

Marx, Karl:

warning, 91;

appeal to workers, 109;

busts of, 112, 115

McCullagh, Captain Francis:

member of the British Military Mission, at Omsk, 1;

flight from, 2-22, 325;

travelling in a sleigh, 12-15, 18-20;

at Taiga, 20;

captured at Krasnoyarsk, 22, 41, 287, 325;

leaves the train, 47;

quarters at Krasnoyarsk, 50;

impecuniosity, 51, 56;

ordered to register, 52;

on the danger of Bolshevism, 53;

registered, 58, 60;

negotiations with a Commissar, 59;

gives lessons, 61;

poses as a civilian, 69;

access to Commissar circles, 70-74;

war correspondent, 71;

telegrams to Moscow, 73;

journey to Ekaterinburg, 74-88, 108, 324, 333;

destruction of identity clues, 82, 270;

at Novo-Nikolaevsk, 84;

Omsk, 84-87;

at a meeting of the Provincial Soviet, 119;

interview with Yurovsky, 146-152;

journey to Moscow, 186-191, 317;

life in Moscow, 206;

attack of “trench foot,” 206;

guest of the Soviet Government, 220;

enters the Kremlin, 252;

interview with Tikhon the Patriarch, 262;

arrested by the Vecheka, 269-272;

searched, 270, 275;

cell, 276;

life in prison, 276-285;

food, 282;

examined, 283;

released, 285;

leaves Russia, 307;

on board the Dongola, 310

Mercier, Cardinal, 262

Merezhkovsky, saying of, 36

Metvietev, Paul, 125, 131;

murders the Tsar, 134;

flight, 166;

destroys traces of the crime at Ippatievsky House, 167;

journey to Moscow, 186, 191

Michael, Grand Duke, murdered, 171

Mikhailov, war correspondent of the Pravda, 15, 203

Miropomazanie, the, 184

Mogilevsky, 268, 283

Morning Post, the, 78

Moscow, 187, 191;

condition, 192-196, 198, 317;

food, 193, 207;

result of Soviet Government, 196, 207;

iron tyranny, 198;

anarchists, 202;

the Polish churches, 208;

disappearance of newspapers, 215;

destruction of official documents, 216;

plays, 217;

Third International, 220, 297;

capitalists, 226-229;

diplomatists, 229;

German prisoners, 230;

the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, 241, 249, 296;

the Kremlin, 252;

Food Control at, 304

Moscow-Kursk railway strike, 288

Mrachkovsky, Commissar, present at the murder of the Tsar, 131

Mulkner or Kamerinsk, 230

Murray, Sergeant, 19

Muzhik, the, 122, 195, 303, 314

Nation, the, 90

Nekrasov, the democratic poet, 176;

“Moroz Krasny Nos,” 178;

“Russian Women,” 178

New Statesman, the, 90

New York World, the, 72

Newspapers, disappearance of, 215

Nicholas II., Tsar of Russia:

account of his murder, 124-138, 172;

fondness for children, 127;

appearance, 132, 173;

removal of his body, 138-140;

cremated, 154-166;

rumours of his being sent to Perm, 169;

treatment by the Reds, 173;

attends Mass, 174;

courtly manners, 175;

life at Tobolsk, 183;

publication of his public speeches, 217

Nikolsk, seized by the Japanese, 251

Ninth Communist Convention, 224, 253

Nizhniudinsk, 311

North, Rev. Frank, xii, 206

North, Mrs., attacked by the Russian Press, 314

Northcliffe, Lord, 90, 91, 256

Novo-Nikolaevsk, 4, 84, 335;

captured by the Reds, 12;

number of deaths from typhus, 31, 32

Okhotsk, Sea of, 179

Olga, Grand Duchess:

murdered, 132-138, 172;

cremated, 154-166

Omsk, British Military Mission at, 1;

captured by the Reds, 2;

money, worthless, 11, 48, 51;

bridge blown up, 83;

cases of typhus, 84, 320;

retreat from, 325

Orenburg, 336

Osaka Asahi, the, 220

Osaka Mainichi, the, 221

Oyash, 12

Pak-oi, head of the Korean Committee at Moscow, 220

Pankratov, V. S.:

jailer of the Tsar, 175;

characteristics, 176;

statement on the Imperial Family, 176-184

Pan-Mohammedan Congress, 222, 297

Parasites, the, 286, 297

Partin, Nicholas:

at the burial of the Imperial Family, 140, 154, 159-166;

discovery of relics, 163

Pascal, Captain, 290

Peasants, the, 314-316

People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, 241, 249, 296

Pepelaiev, General, 12

Perm, 67;

bridge replaced, 83, 90;

number of newspapers, 257

Petrograd, “The Union of Five Oppressed,” 202

Petrov, 180

Plekhanov, Mr., arrested, 198

Pobydonostsev, Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, 289

Polar Sea, 5, 29, 179

Poles, the, 7, 21

Polish churches:

in Moscow, 208;

clergy, 266

Polukarov, John, 337

Pometkovsky, Captain, 154;

discovery of the murder of the Tsar, 155-157

Pravda, the, 15, 145, 203, 314

Press, development of the, 91;

censorship, 242

Preston, Mr., 129

Proletariat, the, 49, 50, 286, 297, 337

Propaganda Hall, 109-113;

charts and cartoons, 110

Propaganda, system of, vii, 97

Puritanism, 24;

resemblance to Bolshevism, 108

Radek, 90;

“The Bolshevik Party,” 291;

on the effect of foreign trade on Bolshevism, 328

Railways, destruction, 83, 188, 327

Rasputin, pictures of, 134

Razin, Stenka, 115

Red Army, 288, 335;

cartoons on, 111;

supply of arms, 337

Red Flag, The, 64

Red Labour Army, 334;

see Labour

Red Road, The, 64

“Red Star of Bolshevism,” 303

Red Tocsin, The, 64, 89, 334

Red Workman, The, 64

Reds, the, ix;

at Irtysh River, 1;

capture Omsk, 2;

Novo-Nikolaevsk, 12;

revolutionary enthusiasm, 23;

atrocities, 27;

English uniforms, 67;

massacre of White officers, 70;

treatment of the Imperial Family, 173;

propaganda, 210-219;

on the freedom of Russia, 308;

joined by the Whites, 325

Reformation, result of the, 295

Revel, 233

Review of Reviews, the, 92

Rodzianko, Count, 177

Roman Catholic Church, in Russia, 265-267

Rooney, Sergeant, 61

Ropp, Bishop, imprisoned, 265

Rosenberg, Press censor, 242, 246

Rosta, the, 252-257, 260

Russia:

history, 29-31;

debauchery, 36;

peasant refugees, 37;

dislocation of families, 38, 200;

notices on station walls, 38, 312;

fate of girls, 39;

change in customs, 61;

patriarchal Communism, 62;

prejudice against manual labour, 63, 94;

subbotnik movement, 151;

result of the Soviet Government, 190, 196, 207;

German envoys, 226, 231;

capitalists, 229, 304;

foreign journalists, 233-240, 243;

Foreign Office, 235, 237;

system of Press censorship, 242-245;

use of wireless, 258, 260;

separation of Church and State, 263;

position of the clergy, 264;

Roman Catholic Church, 265-267;

system of education, 267, 338;

characteristics of the people, 287, 303, 313;

number of Communists, 299;

Extraordinary Commission, 300;

corruption, 304;

population, 306;

military reaction, 307;

peasants, 314-316;

epidemic of typhus, 320-323;

trade with capitalist countries, 327

Russia, Grand Duchesses of:

imprisoned in Ippatievsky Dom, 127;

murdered, 131-138, 172;

cremated, 154-166

“Russian Friends of American Freedom” Association, 203, 223

“Russian Socialist Telegraph Agency,” or the Rosta, 252-257, 260

Sadul, Captain, 103, 222

Sakharov, General, 4, 23, 326

Samoilov, Alexander, 170

Schmidt, Herr, 228

Schneider, Countess, 180

Semashko, Dr., Commissar of Public Health, 31

Semenov, concubine, 36

Serbia, raid on German trenches, viii

Serezhnikov, Mr., 230

Sergiev, war correspondent of the Pravda, 145, 203

Shaw, George Bernard, 90, 91

Sheremetievsky, Andrew, 154, 155

Shitinkin, 21

Siberia, 29;

conquered by the Czechs, xi;

treatment of the peasants, 17;

refugees, 28;

epidemic of typhus, 31, 320-323;

military revival meetings, 257;

military position in, 335

Sirovi, General, 85

Sleighs, travelling by, 12-15, 18-20

Smith, Private, 325

Social-Democrat, extract from, 331

Soviet Government, ix, 299, 332;

system of advertisement, 97;

result in Russia, 190, 196, 207;

number of Jews, 267;

marriage-law, 309

Sovietsky Sibir, the, 85

Spain, 296

Spassky, 338

Staroduma, 168

Stead, W. T., 90

Streokin, on the murder of the Tsar, 134, 172

Struve, Professor, 319

Subbotnik movement, 151

Supranovitch, 76

Sverdlov, Commissar, Vice-Minister of Ways and Communications, 72, 76, 327;

death, 107

Taiga, 20, 84;

number of cases of typhus, 34, 320

Tambov, 338

Tashkent, 223

Tatarskaya, 311

Tatiana, Grand Duchess:

murdered, 132-138, 172;

cremated, 154-166;

compositions, 180

Tatishchev, Count, 183;

murdered, 171

Tattelberg, Madame, 182

Third International Organization, 297

Thomas, Mr., at British Consulate in Ekaterinburg, 128, 319

Tikhon, the Patriarch:

interview with Captain F. McCullagh, 262;

characteristics, 262;

encyclical, 263;

position, 264

Timereva, Madame, 36

Tomsk, 23;

Red G.H.Q. in, 85

“Train-jumping,” 9

Trans-Baïkalia, 221

Trotsky:

fine on hand-shaking, 62, 92;

at Ekaterinburg, 63, 92;

scheme of a Labour Army, 74, 83, 88, 92, 105, 336;

style of journalism, 90;

appearance, 92;

capacity for work, 93;

transport reorganization, 93;

exercise, 94;

measures against typhus, 95-97;

speech on “The Fight Against Economic Ruin,” 98;

treatment of the working classes, 99;

train, 99;

police protection, 100, 194;

adaptability, 101;

characteristics, 102, 106;

style of oratory, 103-105;

position, 107;

pictures of, 113, 115, 117;

in the Kremlin, 252;

nervous strain, 300;

autocracy, 320

Trotsky, Mrs., 94

Turks, fanaticism, 55

Tsarskoe Selo, 134

Typhus:

epidemic of, 6, 16, 320-323;

train burnt, 6, 311;

number of deaths from, 31-35, 84;

treatment of patients, 33;

measures against, 95-97

“Typhus General,” 6

Ufa, 32

Ulster, 302

Uniat Church, 266, 267

Ural factories, 98

Varakovshev, Alexander, 170

Vecheka, the, 272;

police officials, 274;

Governor, 275, 282

Voitsekhovsky, General, 31

Vologda, Province, 264

Vyrobova, Madame, 165 note

Walters, Sergeant-Major, 18, 26

Webb, Sydney, 90

Wells, H. G., 90, 91

Whites, the, 323-327;

advance on Krasnoyarsk, 26;

atrocities, 71;

massacre of, 149;

join the Reds, 325

William II., ex-Kaiser, 330

Wireless service in Russia, 258, 260

Witte, Count, 306

Workmen in Factories, 335

Xenofontov, 283, 284

Yakimov, Anatoly, 134, 137;

on the murder of the Tsar, 172

Yaroslav, 187

Yates, Mr., 48

Yenisei, the, 59

Yudenich, advance on Petrograd, 104

Yurovskaya, Miss, 99, 152

Yurovsky:

murders the Tsar, 108, 125, 130-138, 329;

wounded, 137, 139, 151;

at the burial of the Imperial Family, 140, 154, 159-166;

fear of vengeance, 141;

appointed Inspector of Life Insurance, 142, 150;

interview with Lenin, 143;

flight to Petrograd, 143;

return to Ekaterinburg, 144;

house, 145;

interview with Captain F. McCullagh, 146-152;

appearance, 147;

death of his mother, 148;

President of the Extraordinary Commission, 149;

Bolshevik theories, 151;

son and daughter, 152;

picks up relics, 162

Zinoviev, 90, 327

Zlatoust, 336

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