. The Russian Bolshevik Revolution . THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE 209 a civilized man; and on getting an evasive answertears rose in bis eyes. As the train pulled out thesoldiers on the track jeered, one of them calling outSibirsky Tsar!\ i. e., Tsar of Siberia, and atthe empress, who looked defiantly out of the window,Mrs. Rasputin. Tobolsk is a dirty and unattractive town of twenty-five thousand inhabitants situated on the Irtish, inthe midst of dreary marshes and forests, and twohundred miles from the railway. It is reached bysteamer and, of course, save during the summer, itis cut off from the wo
. The Russian Bolshevik Revolution . THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE 209 a civilized man; and on getting an evasive answertears rose in bis eyes. As the train pulled out thesoldiers on the track jeered, one of them calling outSibirsky Tsar!\ i. e., Tsar of Siberia, and atthe empress, who looked defiantly out of the window,Mrs. Rasputin. Tobolsk is a dirty and unattractive town of twenty-five thousand inhabitants situated on the Irtish, inthe midst of dreary marshes and forests, and twohundred miles from the railway. It is reached bysteamer and, of course, save during the summer, itis cut off from the world. The imperial family waslodged in the palace of the former governors, atwenty-room, dilapidated, and very dirty stuccohouse ^\ithout modern There waspoetic justice in the fact that for centuries Tobolskhas been the center to which the Romanovs exiledtheir foes and critics. A poet-revolutionist hascalled Tobolsk a town of exiles tears and bloodfrom beaten backs, the real metropolis of all-crush-ing Tsarism. As no R
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