Apparently, King and Wlson have collected informtion which gave them a negitive view of Buxhoveden. Pages mention in the under "betrayal of Romanovs: 68-69, 141-43, 148, 265, 505. Added to this is is "credibility of Ekaterinburg reports" folllowed by more page numbers.
p. 69
There is talk about money, a sum of 200,000 rubles, being given by a Makov to Buxhoeveden which someone claims did not reach Volkov and therefore didn't reach the IF while in Tobolsk
What was Volkov's fate?
p. 141
Buxhoevden said: "We were prisioners and had to be passive."
p. 141-2
>>...Buxhoeveden had come under the penetrating gaze of the Bolsheviks, who suspected her in some unknown plot. 'Two searches of her apartment... presumably failed to disclose the hidden funds, but te increased pressure left Buxheveden in fear for her own welfare.<<
p. 142
Talks about Buxhoeveden on the boat Russ where Buxhoevenden went to Rodionov whom said she told him about the royal jewels, where they were concealed and where other items could be found.
>>When the prisioners arrived in Ekaterinburg, women were questioned tht same day. Like Buxhoeveden, Nikolaeva crumbled under presure, according to the Ural Regional Soviet member Pavel Bykov, "revealing were these things could be found. Anna Romanova, who had arrived with Buxhoeveden in Tobolsk, also readily disclosed the secrets of the family she had served, she later married a Boshevik commissar...<<
>>Acting out of fear, Buxhoeveden, neverthelesss guaranted her own safety on reaching the Urals. Alone of the former imperial suit, she was not arrested and imprisioned but allowed first to live in a railroad coach at the station in Ekaterinburg, then to leave the Urals unharmed with the members of the household.<<
>>Both Gillard and Gibbes later openly questioned how the baroness had managed to escape..."
p. 143
Wilson and King continue to d**n Buxhoeveden: >>The Romanovs themselves apparently never learned the truth of their former lady-in-waiting's betrayal.<<
p. 505
Buxhoevenden was "expelled" from Ekaterenburg in June 1918 and left Siberia ....with a half dozen trunks of Romanov posessions.<<
And it is this page that the authors really strike hard at Buxhoeveden: >>...Buxhoeveden was so intimaely involved in the betrayal of the Romanovs is starkly at odds with the lovingly devoted confidiante to the grand duchess. Yet Buxhoevenden's actions in presumablly absconding with Soloviev's funs and her susequent revelations of the imperial family's hidden jewels were not aberrations. While still in Siberia, she borrowed 1,300 rubles from tutor Charles Sydney Gibbes, explaining that she would return the money..." She later said she had never borrowed any money from Gibbes.
Please note the word "presumabily" which I underlined.
Evidently, when the investigator Sokolov wanted in inerview Buxhoeveden she declined to see him. On p. 506 it is the angry Sokolov who makes the comment: "It is obviousl that her consience in regard to that period is not entirely clear."
Ahh, here it is about GD Xenia who >>..fired off a number of angry letters to Victoria, warning that the baroness was not to be trusted. Buxhoeveden, she declared was guilty of treachery in Siberia, and Xenia consistently refused to receive her."
Was GD Xenia believing the gossips or did she have actually proof Buxhoeveden betrayed the IF?
I believe she was receiving messages from Buxhoeveden several months after the Romanov boxes were sent to GD Xenia. Buxhoeveden told her where the jewels of Alexandra were in a certain box that had been sent by the Bolshviks.
Are you aware that these certain jewels were never disclosed in any records? Therefore, we have no idea what jewels they were or their value. They are briefly mentioned in William Clarke's THE LOST FORUNE OF THE TSARS p. 155.
When did GD Xenia send these angry letters? Was there someone who had convinced her about Buxhoeveden's presumed betrayls? Or, is there something else which we don't know about which caused GD Xenia to become angry and begin to believe the worst of Buxhoeveden even if all there was was "rumors" and "gossip"?
I doubt that GD Xenia ever recieved any letters from the Reds telling her anything about Buxhoeveden.
If this is all the evidence there is, I'm not sure painting a yelllow stripe down her back and burning a "t" into her memory is justified. Why? I just have this feeling that is exactly what the Reds wanted people to believe.
If anyone may be guilty it might be >>Anna Romanova, who had arrived with Buxhoeveden in Tobolsk, also readily disclosed the secrets of the family she had served, she later married a Boshevik commissar...<< She remained in Russia. However, it might be just as unfair to think she disclosed anything.
As for the so-called missing money, we have no idea what happened to it.
AGRBear
