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This volume was published in 1919. From the Author: These pages merely contain my personal recollections of what occurred around me from the beginning of the war until our departure from home. There is no pretense to literary merit, and I do not aspire to present one political party in a more advantageous light than I do the others. In each group I noticed many a loyal patriot trying to stem the fatal flood; and everywhere there was much sufferinig. Recent Russian history has been so startling, and so weighted with importance for us, that all I saw and heard fixed itself in my mind. I venture, therefore, to believe I have made few, if any, mis-statements; though I have had no documents at hand to use for verifying what I wrote. One or two tales, such as the account of the Empress's arrest, came to me in a round-about way; but nearly everything I have described either happened in my presence and my neighborhood or was told me by some one of the people who took part in the scene. I have endeavored to repeat exactly and simply all such information. Originally I intended to write only for my children; but I was tempted to publish, at the suggestion of a few friends, and by the generous offer of space in The Saturday Evening Post for a series of articles which appeared recently. They are in part reproduced here by the courtesy of that distinguished journal. " The Acasias," Sarasota, Florida January, 1919 .............................................................................. Chapters: I. The Knell of Autocracy II. First Days of War III. Advisers of the Emperor IV. Life in Petrograd V. The Dismissal of the Grand Duke VI. The " Occult " Party VII. The Murder of Rasputin VIII. The Last Days of Autocracy IX. The Revolution X. The Provisional Government XI. The Arrest of the Empress XII. Aftermath of Revolution XIII. Kief XIV. Kerensky and Bolsheviki XV. The Rise of the Bolsheviki XVI Korniloff and Kerensky XVII. The Bolshevik Uprising XVIII. Our Escape from Kief XIX. The Crimea XX. Petrograd Under the Bolsheviki XXI. Last Days in Russia XXII. Contrasting Portraits: Grigory Rasputin and the Grand Duke Nicolas Nicolaiovitch .............................................................................. Some excerpts: It would be difficult to find two faces more completely contrasted than those of the two Nicolas Romanoffs - our Emperor and his second cousin. The latter, in the small, stocky form beside him, evidently saw not only the person of a reverend Sovereign, but also the embodiment of ideals of which he had made a second religion. As I looked at the two, the childish, charming appeal for sympathy with his pleasure, expressed in the eyes and smile of the younger man, and the answering gleam of devotion and respect in the proud old face, struck me forcibly. .............................................................................. I followed the Imperial family on the lengthy walk to the far side of the palace. Once there, I approached a window, from which I saw not only the square below, but the balcony where the Emperor and Empress stood without attendants. They looked small and lonesome against the mountainous rich faqade of the construction, and they gazed down in silence upon a most amazing sight...below, in the Palace Place, of which few in the world are so large and splendid, a sea of raised faces filled the entire space. .............................................................................. We believed the Grand Duke Nicolas's prophecy was coming true, and that our soldiers and people could not longer be forced to defend a government of which so much evil was commonly known. Long lines of the poor stood waiting hours to receive insufficient rations of bread and other necessities; the weather was exceptionally cold..twenty or thirty degrees below zero.