22Urals Soviet Headquarters
Ekaterinburg, Russia
Late June 1918
The long train ride to the Urals exhausted Morrison, but shortly after arrival in Ekaterinburg, he caught his second wind. How ironic, he mused to himself, that he had been sent on a mission by both the Bolsheviks and the Allied forces to Ekaterinburg. Now he sat in the headquarters of the Urals Soviet, waiting for their leader, Filipp Goloshchekin to arrive. Goloshchekin had already been notified earlier that Lenin had dispatched Moryak to Ekaterinburg on an urgent mission and requested that they meet as soon as he arrived.
At the Ekaterinburg train station he had been met by two thuggish-looking henchmen who brought him to the soviet’s headquarters, located in the old municipal building. There they instructed him to wait
