Yes, in the past they had been a strong race, these Romanoffs, about whom no one thinks any longer to-day in the vast realm that owned them once as its masters and lords. But it would be useless to deny that crimes without number were committed by them and that injustice flourished during the centuries when they could dispose absolutely of the fate of millions and millions of human creatures whom they killed and tortured at their will and according to their fancies. Perhaps it was a just punishment for the ruthless cruelty of some of them that the glories of their race came to an end and perished, together with all the traditions that had surrounded them for such a long time, because of the follies, sins, mistakes, blunderings, iniquities, and indecisions of a weak, characterless, and half-witted man and of a superstitious, intriguing, and half-demented woman.
THE END
| Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: |
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| cemetery of Tsarkoye=> cemetery of Tsarskoye {pg 148} |
| had had the oppportunity=> had had the opportunity {pg 159} |
| this extraordinary Revotion=> this extraordinary Revolution {pg 262} |
| permitted to comnunicate=> permitted to communicate {pg 284} |
| were bring hurled=> were being hurled {pg 287} |
| the tone of his his supplications=> the tone of his supplications {pg 162} |