U.S. troops landed at Archangel on this day, September 4, 1918. They were already at Murmansk and Vladivostok.
On the same day, the Soviets arrested and executed members of the Russian Imperial household. That is, such figures as the lady in waiting Countess Anastasia Vasilyevna Hendrikova and tutor Catherine Adolphovna Schneider. They were executed for no good reason whatsoever. Imperial valet, Aleksei Andreyevich Volkov, managed to escape in a hail of bullets and lived as a refugee in various locations until dying a natural death in Denmark in 1929.
People who like to romanticize the Soviets, and there are plenty, would do well to remember instances like this which demonstrate what a bunch of real bastards the Reds were.
Those members of the household executed on this day have been canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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