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a much smaller place.
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The czar and his wife believed, naively,
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that they were going to be taken to Moscow
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because the provisional government--originally,
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before the provisional government is ended--wants
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Nicholas to sign the eventual peace treaty with the Germans.
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So, this Yakovlev was ordered
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to take his "Baggage,"
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as they called it, that is the royal family,
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to this small town in the Ural mountains.
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But the Ural mountain Bolsheviks were harder to control.
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Remember, the Russian Revolution, both the first one and the second,