On February 22, 1919, in the town of Yekaterinburg, a member of the District Tribunal, Sergeeff, having questioned the peasant, Pavel Medvedeff, prosecuted as an accomplice in the assassination of the former emperor and the members of his family, and considering what measures must be taken to prevent his escape from further inquiry has found: (1) That Medvedeff is indicted for a crime that may be punished by a very serious penalty; (2) that before having been arrested, he was hiding himself in the Red army; and, previous to that, he escaped from Yekaterinburg just before the said town was taken by government troops. On account of the foregoing, it was resolved to put Pavel Medvedeff, thirty-one years old, under arrest in the Yekaterinburg prison. (_Signed_) _Member of the Yekaterinburg District Court_, J. SERGEEFF. VII RECEIPT OF BELOBORODOFF FOR THE ARRESTED RUSSIAN IMPERIAL FAMILY THE WORKMEN’S AND PEASANTS’ GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF SOVIETS URAL DISTRICT SOVIET OF THE WORKMEN’S, PEASANTS’ AND SOLDIERS’ DEPUTIES Presidio Yekaterinburg, April 30, 1918. “On the 30th of April, 1918, I, the undersigned, Chairman of the Ural District Soviet of Workmen’s, Peasants’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, Alexander Georgievitch Beloborodoff, received from the Commissar of the All Russian Central Executive Committee, Vasily Vaselievitch Iakovleff, the following persons transferred from the town of Tobolsk: (1) The former czar, Nicholas Alexandrovitch Romanoff; (2) former czaritza, Alexandra Theodorovna Romanova; (3) former grand duchess, Maria Nicholaevna Romanova--all of them to be kept under guard in the town of Yekaterinburg. (_Signed_) A. BELOBORODOFF, _Member of District Executive Committee_, D. DIDKOVSKY. PART II _The Narrative of_ MR. ROBERT WILTON, _Special Correspondent of_ THE TIMES (LONDON) _Based Upon the Original Dossier of the Investigating Magistrate_ NICHOLAS ALEXEIEVICH SOKOLOV THE NARRATIVE OF MR. ROBERT WILTON CHAPTER I PROLOGUE The true story of the martyrdom of Nicholas II., ex-Tsar of Russia, and of his wife and family is told below. It is based upon evidence obtained by a properly constituted legal investigation. The signed depositions of eye-witnesses are in the writer’s possession, but he does not disclose their identity because many of the deponents are still in the power of the Soviets. The day will come when the guilty will be called to account, but a long time may elapse before the day of retribution dawns. The writer has sought to present the opening for the prosecution, fully confident that the eventual hearing of the evidence before a Court of law will substantiate his statement and impose a verdict of “Guilty.”