Thirteen Years at the Russian Court - A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family

First published in 1921, this book contains the memoirs of Pierre Gilliard. Pierre Gilliard (1879 – 1962) was a Swiss author and academic famous for being the French language tutor of Russian Emperor Nicholas II''s children between 1905 and 1918. Within these pages, Gilliard describes Tsarina Alexandra''s sadness relating to her son''s haemophilia and her belief in Grigori Rasputin''s ability to h...