Thirteen Years at the Russian Court - A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Tsar Nicholas II, and His Family

Pierre Gilliard

Independently published

2016

161 páginas

5h 22m

ISBN-10: 1519085923

In September 1905 Pierre Gilliard entered Tsar Nicholas II’s household as the French tutor of Duchesses Olga Nicolaievna and Tatiana Nicolaievna. He would go on to spend a further thirteen years in the close company of the Romanov family. Throughout his thirteen years Gilliard built strong personal relationships with those at the Russian court and his eyewitness account of that time is a beautifully intimate portrayal of the family. Pierre Gilliard’s remarkable and tragic account of the last years of the Romanov dynasty was first published in 1921. He later became a French professor at the University of Lausanne and died in 1962.