Chapter III: Appendix: KOLCHAK’S GOLD TRAIN (Chapter I., p. 6) 311

BURNING OF A RED CROSS TRAIN (_Chapter I., p. 6_) 311

WRITINGS ON STATION WALLS (_Chapter IV., p. 38_) 312

THE PROPAGANDA HALL AT EKATERINBURG (_Chapter XII., p. 109_) 312

BOLSHEVIK JOURNALISM (_Chapter XX., p. 252_) 313

THE PEASANTS (_Chapter XII., p. 122_) 314

MOSCOW (_Chapter XV., p. 192_) 317

BOLSHEVIK MODERNISM 318

TYPHUS (_Chapter IV., p. 31_) 320

CONDITIONS IN EKATERINBURG (_Chapter XII., p. 123_) 323

THE RUSSIAN WHITES (_Chapter IV., p. 36_) 323

WHITE TROOPS WHO JOINED THE REDS (_Chapter VIII., p. 67_) 325

TRADE WITH CAPITALIST COUNTRIES 327

THE IMPERIAL FAMILY (_Chapter XIII., p. 134_) 328

LENIN (_Chapter XXIII., p. 289_) 329

THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT 332

MY BOLSHEVIK TRAVELLING COMPANIONS (_Chapter X., p. 76_) 333

THE RED LABOUR ARMY (_Chapter XI., p. 89_) 334

WORKMEN IN FACTORIES (_Chapter XXIV., p. 306_) 335

THE MILITARY POSITION IN SIBERIA 335

THE EDUCATION OF THE PROLETARIAT (_Chapter XI., p. 89_) 337

INDEX 341

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE TSARINA AND TSAREVICH _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

THE “WORKMEN’S AND SOLDIERS’ DEPUTIES” OF EKATERINBURG, JULY,
1918 xviii

AMMUNITION BEING BLOWN UP BEFORE THE EVACUATION OF EKATERINBURG
BY KOLCHAK 2

GROUP INCLUDING GENERAL SAKHAROV, GENERAL KOLCHAK, AND THE AUTHOR 4

CORPSE OF THE GRAND DUKE JOHN 82

CORPSE OF THE GRAND DUCHESS ELIZABETH 82

THE RED TOCSIN 88

IPPATIEVSKY DOM, EKATERINBURG 124

TWO SNOW SCENES ON THE FINNISH FRONTIER 310

THE “WORKMEN’S AND SOLDIERS’ DEPUTIES” OF EKATERINBURG WHO ALL SIGNED THE TSAR’S DEATH WARRANT, JULY, 1918.

Central figure with cap is Comrade Sosnovsky, a prominent but mysterious Bolshevik probably engaged to the beautiful Miss Yurovsky. On his right is Bykov, formerly an officer. Next to him is Beloborodov, President of the Regional Soviet of Ekaterinburg. Standing upright behind Sosnovsky is Safarov, a powerful Bolshevik with a position on the Executive Committee of the party. He is not an Ekaterinburg man, but came to Ekaterinburg from Moscow nominally to occupy an unimportant post, but really to act as the secret agent of Lenin among the Ural Bolsheviks, who, being miners, were inclined to be headstrong and to defy even Moscow. Safarov accompanied Lenin on his famous train journey through Germany to Russia in a sealed carriage. At the extreme right of the first row is Goloshokin, a Commissar who occupied somewhat the same position as Safarov, and who worked hand in glove with him. At the extreme left of the back row is Tuntul, formerly a subaltern in the old army. Many of these men were neither workmen nor soldiers, but all signed the Tsar’s death-warrant. The device on the Red Flag behind them reads “Soviet of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Deputies.” This picture was taken before epaulettes were abolished.]

A PRISONER OF THE REDS