Ostatnie dni Romanowów

Het boek is in het Engels. Hieronder volgt de beschrijving in het Engels. The reissue of the pre-war Polish edition translation of Robert Archibald Wilton's Ostatnie dni Romanowów is another attempt to restore a proper picture of the events of the Bolshevik Revolution, which, after a hundred years, remain distorted. Robert Archibald Wilton is a notable witness. The open secret is, for example, that this coup was prepared and financed by the German authorities and by some bankers across the ocean, or even the origin of the most important revolutionary leaders and commissioners. The author of Ostatnie dni Romanowów speaks with natural candor and does not shy away from these and other threads, as an eyewitness, attempting to reveal the truth about the murder of the innocent imperial family. Robert Archibald Wilton is indeed a witness of consequence. Through a twist of fate, together with the Kolchak army, he found himself in the very epicenter of the events, almost immediately after they occurred. He accompanied the investigation led by Kolchak's forces. He had close access to the accumulating evidence. He remained at the site of the crime, observing the mining shafts where bodies and artifacts were disposed of with brutal efficiency. In addition to detailing the tragedy of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, Wilton's book reveals many surprising secrets that are historically and politically controversial, concerning this repulsive murder, which, incidentally, became the foundation of the new Soviet order. Robert Archibald Wilton was born in Cringleford, Norfolk. He was the son of a British mining engineer employed in Russia. In 1889 he joined the European staff of the New York Herald, where for fourteen years he worked as a Russian and German correspondent. He then worked as a correspondent for The Times in St. Petersburg, becoming known as a highly engaged observer of events in Russia in the final years of the Tsarist regime. During World War I he served in the Russian army, where he was awarded the Cross of St. George. After the revolution he moved to Siberia. After the fall of Kolchak's government, he escaped from Russia to Paris, where in 1920 he joined the New York Herald. In 1924 he joined the team at the newly formed English-language newspaper, The Paris Times. Wilton was the author of two books: Russia's Agony (London, 1918) and The Last Days of the Romanovs (1920).