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  • Thirteen Years at the Russian Court: A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. And His Family

    by Pierre Gilliard ...
    In the autumn of 1904 I accepted a proposal which had been made to me to go to Duke Sergius of Leuchtenberg as French professor. My pupil’s father, Duke George of Leuchtenberg, was the grandson of Eugène de Beauharnais; through his mother, the Grand-Duchess Marie Nicolaïevna, daughter of Nicholas I., he was a cousin of the Czar Nicholas II. At the time the family were at the small estate they ... Read more

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  • Thirteen years at the Russian court

    by Pierre Gilliard ...
    "Thirteen Years at the Russian Court" by Pierre Gilliard offers a unique glimpse into the opulent yet tumultuous world of the Russian imperial court during the early 20th century. Gilliard, who served as a tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II, provides firsthand accounts of the daily life, customs, and intrigues that characterized the royal family. His observations reveal the complexities of ... Read more

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  • Thirteen Years at the Russian Court

    A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family

    by Pierre Gilliard ...
    Translated by F. Appleby Holt ...
    Nicholas II (1868-1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until his forced abdication on March 15, 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody or Vile Nicholas by his political adversaries due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic ... Read more

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  • Thirteen Years at the Russian Court - A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family

    by Pierre Gilliard ...
    First published in 1921, this book contains the memoirs of Pierre Gilliard. Pierre Gilliard (1879 – 1962) was a Swiss author and academic famous for being the French language tutor of Russian Emperor Nicholas II's children between 1905 and 1918. Within these pages, Gilliard describes Tsarina Alexandra's sadness relating to her son's haemophilia and her belief in Grigori Rasputin's ability to help ... Read more

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  • The Outbreak of the Great War

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  • Once a Grand Duke

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    Alexander lived in Paris when he wrote his memoirs, Once a Grand Duke, which were first published in 1932. It is a rich source of dynastical and court life in Imperial Russia's last half century, and Alexander also describes time spent as guest of the future Abyssinian Emperor Ras Tafari."The history of the last fifty turbulent years of the Russian Empire provides only a background, but is not the ... Read more

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  • The Myth of a Guilty Nation

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  • The Franco-German War

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