RUSSIAN MENTALITY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 5

RUSSIAN MENTALITY

MURDERED ROYAL FAMILY D HOUSE TURNED INTO MUSEUM (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12th January, 9.5 a.m.) , LONDON, 11th January,'"".', j A curious light on Russian mentaSty is the fact that the house where Tsar and family were murdered at Ekaterinburg has been turned 'into a museum of tile Revolution, with the usual illustrations and relics shovying., the growth of the revolutionary movement. Captain John de Vere Loder (a form- ; er member of the Intelligence /Corps)', describing in the “Daily recent visit, says that a large painting' by a local artist who was apparently ;?!! eye-witness, depicts the handing over of the Imperial family to the Ural ’Soviet', on their arrival from Tobolsk.-- -The “Telegraph” reproduces a photograph of' tlie painting showing the family facing uniformed soldiers in the snow while a ' train is steaming away in the - background. Captain Loder found that the whole episode was treated just as am historical fact, detachedly, as though the Tsar were a remote figure, such as -■ Charles I. There was no attempt either to conceal the facts or make propagandafrom them. A framed copy of a local newspaper testifies the circumstances of the event. A notice is displayed saying that as soon as ten or more are assembled, attendants will conduct them to the place where Nicholas Romanoff was executed. Here in a tragic room in the., basement,, where the Tsar, his wife, five children and four attendants were herded and perished, visitors gaze emotion- ■ lessly at bullet holes in the wall and floor. • •