ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
The Empress of Russia in Her Happy DaysFrontispiece
Facing Page
The Empress Driving Her Pony Chaise8
The Empress with Grand Duchess Tatiana in Her Bedroom, Tsarskoe Selo8
Alexander Sergievitch Tanieff9
The Winter Palace, Petrograd20
Military Review, Tsarskoe Selo21
The Emperor and Empress in a Quiet Hour on Board the Imperial Yacht32
The Empress Distributing Presents to Sailors at the End of a Cruise33
Livadia, the New Palace of the Tsars in the Crimea38
A Corner of the Court of the Palace of Livadia39
The Imperial Children Bathing in the Black Sea at Livadia39
The Imperial Yacht Arrives at Livadia, the Crimea50
The Tsar, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana and Mme. Viroubova at Homburg51
The Empress Giving Alexei a Lesson on the Terrace74
Alexei Playing in the Snow at Tsarskoe Selo74
The Empress in Bed with Convalescent Tsarevitch75
Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana on Board the “Standert”78
The Tsarevitch with His Cousins, Children of Grand Duke Ernest of Hesse79
Nicholas II and the Tsarevitch on Board the Imperial Yacht “Standert” 80
The Tsarevitch with His Sailor, Derevanko81
The Tsar, Tsarina, and Alexei in the Gardens at Tsarskoe Selo81
The Emperor and Empress in Old Slavonic Dress, Jubilee of 191398
The Invalid Empress on the Balcony at Peterhof99
The Guest Room in Rasputine’s House in Siberia169
The Three Children of Rasputine Before Their House in Siberia169
The Empress and Young Grand Duke Dmitri, Afterwards One of Rasputine’s Assassins184
Minister of Court Count Fredericks, the Empress and Tatiana Taking Tea in Finnish Woods185
Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Anastasie, and Marie, Prisoners at Tsarskoe Selo, 1917266
Anna Viroubova Shortly After Her Release from the Fortress of Peter and Paul267
Letters From Nicholas II to Anna Viroubova, from Tobolsk, 1917306
Letters from Alexei, Tatiana, and Marie, Smuggled from Siberia in 1917307
One of the Empress’s Last Letters to Mme. Viroubova, Written in Old Slavonic, 1918320
Smuggled Letter from the Empress on Birchbark after Paper Gave Out321
The Ex-Emperor and Alexei Feeding Turkeys in the Barnyard, Tobolsk, 1918342
The Last Photograph Taken of the Empress and Her Daughters, Olga and Tatiana, Shortly Before the Murder of the Imperial Family in Siberia343
Note: With very few exceptions all these photographs were taken by members of the Imperial Family and by Mme. Viroubova, all of whom were experts with the camera.
MEMORIES OF THE RUSSIAN COURT