The Kirghiz with whom we stopped was very well off. . . . After some tea our host asked me, “Where is the Ak Padsha now, the White Tsar Nikolai?”
“He and all his family, the Tsaritsa, their daughters and son, have been killed by the Bolsheviks,” I answered.
The old man gave a deep sigh . . .“And you . . . Are you one of the men of the regime of Nikolai?”
“Yes, of course,” I replied. “I detest and despise the Bolsheviks.”
The old man . . . began to blink and a tear rolled down his cheek, while the rest of the family sobbed . . .
I was deeply touched by the scene. On this remote frontier of the Empire, . . . a family of nomad herdsmen was weeping for the tragic death of their White Pasha, as the Tsar was known.
In which period of time did this scene take place?
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