13 June 1917. Maria Feodorovna

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire

There was another incredibly humiliating event awaiting us that day. The commission arrived from Sevastopol and took us all to all to a kind of court at Svitsky house, where each of us individually had to answer questions relating to the searches. To tell the truth, I was so outraged by this new, and unexpectedly vile trick, that as I entered the room and saw them sitting behind the long table like judges, ready to question me like some thief or murderer, I was shaking with indignation and fury. But, fortunately, Sandro was with me.

I found myself between two low ranking offices – a sailor and a soldier, the remaining people present at the table. The role of the presiding officer was carried out by a certain general who sat directly opposite me. He read out my explanations in which I laid out in order the events of that day, or rather, that night, because I was sleeping soundly when it all began.

These events were the most insulting and disgusting of all that I have had to endure in my life. I will never forget how despicably and unpleasantly they treated me, they were just trying to humiliate me. Fortunately, there were no faces familiar to me among the officers present. I think that they refused to participate in such a performance.

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