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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,
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have been aptly described as a revolution by telegraph.
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The vast reaches of the Russian Empire are so absolutely enormous
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that in many cases it was weeks,
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and in a few places months,
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before any revolutionary commissar
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arrived to sort of inform people what's going on.
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So, lots of these Bolsheviks were sort of freelancers, and,