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Show uihd SI " HERARREST Dep'.osed Empress of Russia Csllrnly Submits to Be-slcommg Be-slcommg Prisoner of Revolutionaries. UJXDO.V, March '22. A Keutcr dis-patclli dis-patclli from Fotrograd today Bays that GraiJd Dukp Nicholas is on the way to f retrngrad and former Emperor JCic'f lOlas, adds (ho dii'pat'h, is expected at 'j.'sarskoe-8 lo, whore he will be met by I'leneral Korniloff, commander of the !on-oj;rad district, with whom he will j 7iiotor to the palace escorted by a guard of cavalry. "General Korniloff," cortinnes the dispatch, "informed former Kmpross Alexandrn of her orre.-d. Proceeding to Tsarskoe-Sclo with his staff, ho telephoned tele-phoned from the station to the. court chamberlain, Count Beuckendorff , asking ask-ing when it would be convenient for the former empress to receive him. Count Renekeridorff said that he might be received id half an hour. "General Korniloff and his staff drove to the palace, where they were taken to the private apartments of the former empress, who appeared in a few moments dressed in black and asked all to be seated. Her first words were: 'To what am 1 indebted for your visit1?' General Korniloff, rising, replied: re-plied: 'T have come by the instructions instruc-tions of the council of ministers and I have to inform you of the decision of the provisional government.' "The former empress, rising, said: '1 am ready to hear the government's decision.' "General Korniloff then read the decree de-cree and informed the ex-empress that she was from '.hat moment deprived of her libcrtv. A strict guard was established es-tablished 'at the palace, tho former guards being removed. "The staff having retired the former empress asked General Korniloff not to dismiss the household servants, who were familiar with the habits and needs of her sick children. She especially requested re-quested to bo allowed to retain Sergeant Ser-geant Berevenko, the male nurse of Alexis. General Korniloff granted the request and withdrew." |