Thirteen Years At The Russian Court

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Author

Gilliard, Pierre, 1879-1962

Title

Thirteen years at the Russian court (a personal record of the last years and death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his family)

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland

Subject

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60546

Release Date

October 21, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THIRTEEN YEARS AT THE RUSSIAN COURT
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
5. 5.CHAPTER I MY FIRST LESSONS AT THE COURT (AUTUMN, 1905)
6. 6.CHAPTER II ALEXIS NICOLAÏEVITCH—VISITS TO THE CRIMEA (AUTUMN, 1911, AND SPRING, 1912) SPALA (AUTUMN, 1912)
7. 7.CHAPTER III I BEGIN MY DUTIES AS TUTOR—THE CZAREVITCH’S ILLNESS (AUTUMN, 1913)
8. 8.CHAPTER IV THE CZARINA, ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA
9. 9.CHAPTER V RASPUTIN
10. 10.CHAPTER VI LIFE AT TSARSKOÏE-SELO—MY PUPILS (THE WINTER OF 1913-14)
11. 11.CHAPTER VII THE INFLUENCE OF RASPUTIN—MADAME WYROUBOVA—MY TUTORIAL TROUBLES
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII JOURNEYS TO THE CRIMEA AND RUMANIA—PRESIDENT POINCARÉ’S VISIT—DECLARATION OF WAR BY GERMANY (APRIL-JULY, 1914)
13. 13.CHAPTER IX THE IMPERIAL FAMILY IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR—OUR JOURNEY TO MOSCOW (AUGUST, 1914)
14. 14.CHAPTER X THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE WAR
15. 15.CHAPTER XI THE RETREAT OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY—THE CZAR PLACES HIMSELF AT THE HEAD OF HIS ARMY—THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF THE CZARINA (FEBRUARY-SEPTEMBER, 1915)
16. 16.CHAPTER XII NICHOLAS II. AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF—THE ARRIVAL OF THE CZAREVITCH AT G.H.Q.—VISITS TO THE FRONT
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII THE CZAR AT THE DUMA—THE CAMPAIGN IN GALICIA—OUR LIFE AT G.H.Q.—GROWING DISAFFECTION IN THE REAR (1916)
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV POLITICAL TENSION—THE DEATH OF RASPUTIN
19. 19.CHAPTER XV THE REVOLUTION—THE ABDICATION OF NICHOLAS II.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI THE CZAR NICHOLAS II.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII THE REVOLUTION SEEN FROM THE ALEXANDER PALACE—THE CZAR’S RETURN TO TSARSKOÏE-SELO
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII FIVE MONTHS’ CAPTIVITY AT TSARSKOÏE-SELO (MARCH—AUGUST, 1917)
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX OUR CAPTIVITY AT TOBOLSK (AUGUST-DECEMBER, 1917)
24. 24.CHAPTER XX END OF OUR CAPTIVITY AT TOBOLSK (JANUARY-MAY, 1918)
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI EKATERINBURG THE MURDER OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY DURING THE NIGHT OF JULY 16-17 th , 1918
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CRIME ESTABLISHED BY THE ENQUIRY
27. 27.EPILOGUE

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