Part 4: Chapter 30 Summary and Analysis

Nicholas has to have advance permission to go outside of the palace, even for a walk in the park. Soldiers appeared and blocked his path every way he tried to go and pushed him back with their guns. He went back into the palace and Lili and Alexandra, who had been watching from an upstairs window, began to grasp what revolution met. A group of soldier came and said they had orders to bring Nicholas to the Fortress of Peter and Paul but upon questioning it was found that all they wanted to do was to see Nicholas. That night another group arrived and dug up Rasputin's remains and burned them on a bier of pine logs. This was exactly what Rasputin had predicted.

The group inside the palace included some people who decided to stay with the royal...