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324 into the hands of Kerensky. The life of the royal prisoners now became harder, though still bearable. On November 7, Bolshevik revolutionaries dismissed the Kerensky government and the con - dition of the Czar became so pitiful as to make the stoutest heart flinch. The Czar was removed from internment in the Royal Palace and moved from place to place. Finally, to remind him of the atrocities he committed on his subjects by imprisoning them in Siberia, he was taken to Ekaterinburg, a small town is to the east of the Urals, fourteen hundred miles from Moscow. This was where that machinery that was used in Siberian mines was man - ufactured and Russian political prisoners were made to work in these mines. The scenes around his new prison reminded the Czar of the atrocities he had perpetrated on his subjects. The pitiful condition of the Czar was not to be measured by these mental tortures alone. The Bolshevik government reduced his rations and ordinary comforts. His sick child was beaten by ill-mannered guards in front of his parents and his daughters were also mistreated, but even these tortures did not satiate the rev - olutionaries. They invented new penalties and new pains. One day the virgin daughters of the Czar were raped by the soldiers and the Czarina was forced to watch. Witnessing these brutali - ties and enduring more pains and poignancies than could have been endured by any mortal, the Czar, at last, met his end. He was shot dead on July 16, 1918, along with the entire royal family. The prophecy ‘Even the Tsar at that hour, will be in a pitiable state’ 45 was fulfilled literally. The war was over. The Czar died a pitiful death. The rulers of Germany and Austria had surrendered their crowns. Cities had been laid waste. Hills had disappeared. Millions of men had