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Rh burst into the "pension" and stole all Madame Goremykin's jewellery, money, and documents.

On reflection, after this event, I was astonished that such notorious and hated people as the Goremykins should have chosen Sochi as their residence, where conditions were particularly favourable for an attack.

Soon after my departure from Sochi, about the middle of October, Goremykin moved with his wife into a villa belonging to his married daughter. Here he was assaulted at night by a gang of Bolshevik sailors, who murdered with appalling cruelty the ex-Premier, Madame Goremykin, and their son-in-law, while wounding seriously their daughter, who was saved afterwards.

Such was the end of the last Imperial Premier and leader of reaction.