Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Grand Duke Paul arrested!

August 21, 1918

A Moscow dispatch to the Berlin newspaper, Lokal-Anzeier (and passed to the New York Time's correspondent in Amsterdam,) states that Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich has been arrested by the Bolsheviks.  He is an uncle of the late Nicholas II and father of Grand Duke Dimitri, who was recently appointed an "honorary Captain in the British Army.

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