Part 4: Chapter 32 Summary and Analysis

The Romanovs traveled to Siberia in a luxury train, even though it was not the royal train. They were allowed to bring some palace treasures and jewels with them. Traveling with the Romanov family were two valets, six maids, ten footmen, three cooks with four assistants, a wine steward, a butler, and their two pet dogs. The train's restaurant car also contained wines from the palace wine cellar. The soldiers followed on a second train. The trains did not stop at the stations that were deserted when the trains went through. The train window shades also had to be drawn when they went through a town. The trip to Siberia took four days.

The train reached Tyumen around midnight on August 17. There was still another two hundred miles to Tobolsk by river. They transferred to the steamer Rus for...