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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Czar clearing snow at Tsarskoïe-Selo _Frontispiece_

_Facing page_

The Czarevitch in the park of Tsarskoïe-Selo 20

The four Grand-Duchesses in 1909 20

The Czarina before her marriage 26

The Czarevitch at the age of fifteen months 26

The Grand-Duchesses Marie and Anastasie in theatrical costume 30

The Czarina at the Czarevitch’s bedside 30

The four Grand-Duchesses gathering mushrooms 40

The Czarevitch cutting corn he had sown at Peterhof 40

Letter to the author from the Grand-Duchess Olga Nicolaïevna, 1914 60

The Czarevitch with his dog “Joy” 70

The Czarina and the Czarevitch in the court of the palace at Livadia 74

The Czarina sewing in the Grand-Duchesses’ room 74

Excursion to the “Red Rock” on May 8th, 1914 92

The four Grand-Duchesses, 1914 92

The Czar and Czarevitch examining a captured German machine-gun, 1914 110

The Czar and Czarevitch before the barbed wire, 1915 110

The Czar 134

The Czarevitch 134

The Czarina 140

The four Grand-Duchesses 140

The Czar and Czarevitch on the banks of the Dnieper, 1916 148

The Czar and Czarevitch near Mohileff, 1916 148

The Czar and Czarevitch at a religious service at G.H.Q., Mohileff 154

The Grand-Duchesses visiting the family of a railway employee 166

The Czarina and Grand-Duchess Tatiana talking to refugees 166

The Grand-Duchess Marie as a convalescent 212

The four Grand-Duchesses in the park at Tsarskoïe-Selo 212

The Czarina’s room in the Alexander Palace 216

The Portrait Gallery 216

The Czar, his children and their companions in captivity working in the park 222

The Czar working in the kitchen-garden 226

The Czarina, in an invalid chair, working at some embroidery 226

The Grand-Duchess Tatiana carrying turf 230

The Czar and his servant Juravsky sawing the trunk of a tree 230

The Grand-Duchesses Tatiana and Anastasie taking a water-butt to the kitchen-garden 234

The Imperial family’s suite at Tsarskoïe-Selo, 1917 234

The Grand-Duchess Tatiana a prisoner in the park of Tsarskoïe-Selo 240

Alexis Nicolaïevitch joins the Grand-Duchess 240

The Czar and his children in captivity enjoying the sunshine at Tobolsk 246

The Governor’s house at Tobolsk, where the Imperial family were interned 252

The Czar sawing wood with the author 256

Alexis Nicolaïevitch on the steps of the Governor’s house 256

The Imperial family at the main door of the Governor’s house 260

The Czarina’s room 260

The priest celebrating Mass in the Governor’s house after the departure of Their Majesties 264

The river steamer _Rouss_ on which the Czar and his family travelled 264

Ipatief’s house at Ekaterinburg, in which the Imperial family were interned and subsequently massacred 270

Yourovsky, from a photograph produced at the enquiry 272

The Grand-Duchesses’ room in Ipatief’s house 272

Ipatief’s house from the Vosnessensky street 276

The Czarina’s favourite lucky charm, the “Swastika” 276

The room in Ipatief’s house in which the Imperial family and their companions were put to death 282

Mine-shaft where the ashes were thrown 286

The search in the mine-shaft 286

M. Sokoloff examining the ashes nearest to the mine-shaft 290

M. Sokoloff examining traces of fire at foot of an old pine 290

Dr. Botkin, who was killed with the Imperial family 294

A group taken at Tobolsk 294

Thirteen Years at the Russian Court