Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Bolshies kill 5 Grand Dukes

By Chicago Tribune - New York Times Cable, dated November 14, 1918 (delayed).

Czecho-Slovaks have "found the bodies of five grand dukes" in a well at Alapayevsk.  Among them was Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovitch, whose wife is imprisoned by the Bolsheviks at Perm.
According to information from the Czech soldiers, the "dukes were taken from Perm, thrown into a twenty-five foot well alive and then hand grenades were thrown into the well."
In a forest near Ekaterinburg, where Nicholas II was killed,  the Czechs found unburied sixty-five bodies.  The dead were leading residents of Ekaterinburg who were shot by the Bolsheviks.

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