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THIRTEEN YEARS AT THE RUSSIAN COURT

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BY
PIERRE GILLIARD
(Formerly Tutor to the Czarevitch)


TRANSLATED BY
F. APPLEBY HOLT, O.B.E.

With 59 Illustrations


THIRD EDITION

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LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO.
PATERNOSTER ROW

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INTRODUCTION

IN September, 1920, after staying three years in Siberia, I was able toreturn to Europe. My mind was still full of the poignant drama withwhich I had been closely associated, but I was also still deeplyimpressed by the wonderful serenity and flaming faith of those who hadbeen its victims.

Cut off from communication with the rest of the world for many months, Iwas unfamiliar with recent publications on the subject of the CzarNicholas II. and his family. I was not slow to discover that though someof these works revealed a painful anxiety for accuracy and their authorsendeavoured to rely on serious records (although the information theygave was often erroneous or incomplete so far as the Imperial family wasconcerned), the majority of them were simply a tissue of absurdities andfalsehoods—in other words, vulgar outpourings exploiting the mostunworthy calumnies.[1]

I was simply appalled to read some of them. But my indignation was fargreater when I realised to my amazement that they had been accepted bythe general public.

To rehabilitate the moral character of the Russian sovereigns was aduty—a duty called for by honesty

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