The Romanov Sisters (Four Sisters) (81 page)

Russia, 1885–1919, Hoover Institution Archives, TS fo. 82.

Bekhteev went into exile in 1920 and settled first in Serbia and

then in Nice where the existence of this letter and the poem

Bekhteev wrote based on it became well known in Russian émigré

circles. See also Chernova,
Vernye
, pp. 476–7.

53 Quoted in Titov, ‘OTMA’, p. 36.

54 Bitner, quoted in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, pp. 423–4.

55 Ibid

56 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
,
p. 74.

57 Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, p. 179.

58 Ibid., p. 180.

59 Ibid., p. 179.

60 Letter no. 25 to Katya, 19 January; letter no. 24, 24 January, EEZ.

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NOTES

61 Fragment of letter from Anastasia to unknown recipient, Alferev,

Pisma iz zatocheniya
, pp. 250–1.

62 List 1 (14) Tobolsk books, Sydney Gibbes Papers; Trewin,
Tutor to
the Tsarevich
, pp. 82–3.

63 Ibid., p. 74;
LD
, p. 41.

64 Bitner testimony in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 424.

65
LD
, p. 17.

66 For Alexey see Alexandra’s diary for 26 and 30 January, in ibid., pp. 32, 36.

67 Quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 252.

68 Quoted in ibid., p. 267.

69 Ibid., p. 268.

70
LD
, p. 38.

71
Dnevniki
II, p. 292.

72 Coutau-Begari, p. 35.

73 Wilton and Telberg,
Last Days of the Romanovs
, p. 196; Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 255.

74 Kobylinsky statement in Wilton and Telberg,
Last Days of the

Romanovs
, p. 197.

75 Gilliard,
Thirteen
Years
, p. 255.
For the household economies see
Dnevniki
II, pp. 296–8.

76
LP
, p. 609.

77
Dnevniki
II, p. 312.

78 Ibid., p. 332.

79 Vyrubova,
Memories
, p. 337; Coutau-Begari, p. 35.

80 Dehn,
Real Tsaritsa
, pp. 244, 246.

81
Dnevniki
II, p. 325.

82 Quoted in Kozlov and Khrustalev,
Last Diary
, p. 72.

83
Dnevniki
II, p. 328.

84 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 256.

85
Dnevniki
II, pp. 327–8.

Chapter 21
: They Knew It Was the End When I Was with Them

1
Dnevniki
II, p. 316.

2 Ibid
.,
p. 336.

3 Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, p. 192.

4 Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind
, pp. 68–9.

5 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
,
p. 256.

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NOTES

6 Vyrubova,
Memories
, p. 341.

7 Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind
, p. 49.

8 Vyrubova,
Memories
, p. 338.

9 Volkov statement, in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 450.

10 Vyrubova
, Memories
,
p. 338.

11 Kozlov and Khrustalev,
Last Diary
, p. 102.

12 Wilton and Telberg,
Last Days of the Romanovs
, p. 200.

13 Melnik-Botkina,
Vospominaniya
, pp. 95–6.

14 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 259.

15
Dnevniki
II, p. 368.

16
Fall
, p. 238.

17 Ross,
Gibel’ tsarskoy semi
, p. 412.

18 Wilton and Telberg,
Last Days of the Romanovs
, p. 250.

19 Kozlov and Khrustalev,
Last Diary
, p. 108.

20 Melnik-Botkina,
Vospominaniya
, p. 106; Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, p.

194.

21 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 262;
Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 98.

22 ‘British Abbot who was Friend of Murdered Czar’,
Singapore Free
Press
, 20 March 1936; Nicholas [Gibbes], ‘Ten Years’, pp. 13–14; now Father Nicholas, Gibbes was interviewed en route through

Singapore to the Holy Land.

23
Dnevniki
II, p. 374.

24 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 98; Buxhoeveden,
Life and Tragedy
, p. 331.

25 Nicholas [Gibbes], ‘Ten Years’, p. 14; Bulygin,
Murder of the
Romanovs
, p. 209; Kobylinsky statement in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 304.

26 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 98.

27 Melnik-Botkina,
Vospominaniya
, p. 104.

28 Zeepvat, ‘Valet’s Story’, p. 332.

29 Statement in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 304.

30 Statement in ibid., p. 4232.

31 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 100.

32 Ibid., p. 130; Melnik-Botkina,
Vospominaniya
, p. 108.

33 Gibbes, TS memoirs, f. 12.

34 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 263.

35 Tschebotarioff,
Russia My Native Land
, p. 197.

36 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 263.

37 Vyrubova,
Memories
, p. 342.

38 Olga’s letter, 28 April to 5 May 1918, Wilson, ‘Separation and

Uncertainty’, no. 25, p. 4. The letters covering April–May 1918

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NOTES

translated into English in this series of articles (nos. 25–8) are

taken from the French versions of the original Russian in the

Journal Intime de Nicolas
II
, 1934, and Eugénie de Grèce,
Le
Tsarévitch: enfant martyr.
The translations are therefore at second hand, as the original Russian MS sources, if they still survive, have not as yet been made available.

39 Ibid., p. 5.

40 Ibid.

41 See web site @: http://www.tzar-nikolai.orthodoxy.ru/n2/pism/12.

htm#9

42 Wilson, ‘Separation and Uncertainty’, no. 26, p. 41.

43 Ibid., no. 27, p. 82.

44 Ibid., p. 83.

45 Ibid., p. 84.

46 Quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 417.

47 Wilson, ‘Separation and Uncertainty’, no. 28, p. 114.

48 Ibid., p. 115.

49 Maria, postcard to Ella, quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 430.

50
Dnevniki
II, pp. 425–6. Note that transcriptions of this widely quoted letter vary and some translations based on them (e.g.
Fall
, pp. 301–2) contain possible errors.

51 Ibid., p. 426.

52 Bulygin,
Murder of the Romanovs
, p. 228.

53 Ibid., p. 229.

54 Wilton and Telberg,
Last Days of the Romanovs
, p. 213.

55 Wilson, ‘Separation and Uncertainty’, no. 28, p. 114.

56 Bulygin,
Murder of the Romanovs
, p. 230; Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, p.

207.

57 Ibid., p. 208.

58 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, pp. 101–2.

59 Buchanan,
Queen Victoria’s Relations
, p. 231.

60 Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind
, pp. 68–9.

61 Ibid., p. 71.

62 Bulygin,
Murder of the Romanovs
, p. 230; Nicholas [Gibbes], ‘Ten Years’, p. 14.

63 Rodionov remained in Ekaterinburg to help organize the guard at

the Ipatiev House. According to Plotnikov,
Gibel tsarskoy semi,
pp.

195, 475–6, most of the seventy-two-man escort to Ekaterinburg

were Latvian chekists. Rodionov went on to work for the NKVD

in the 1930s.

64 Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind
, p. 73.

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NOTES

65 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 269.

66 Speranski,
‘La Maison’
, pp. 158–9.

67 Ibid., pp. 159–60, 161.

68 Ibid., p. 161.

69 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 104; Nicholas [Gibbes], ‘Ten Years’, p. 14.

Chapter 22
: Prisoners of the Ural Regional Soviet

1 1472
Dnevniki
II, p. 438.

2 Ibid.

3
LD
,
p. 157.

4
Dnevniki
II, p. 427.

5 Ibid.,
p. 458.

6 Quoted in ibid., p. 456.

7
LD
, p. 137.

8 Ibid.,
p. 151.

9
Dnevniki
II, p. 487.

10 Ibid., p. 475.

11
LD
, p. 159;
Dnevniki
II, p. 465.

12
LD
, p. 194.

13 Ibid., p. 469; ibid.,
p. 163.

14 See ibid.,
27 May, 10 June, pp. 148, 162.

15 Ibid., pp. 169, 170;
Dnevniki
II, p. 479.

16 Ibid., p. 490;
LD
,
p. 175.

17 Guard Alexander Strekotin, of Olga as very thin and pale, in Zhuk,
Ispoved tsareubiits
,
p. 450; Testimony of Alexey Kabanov, in Zhuk,
Ispoved
, p. 129; see also p.144.

18 Speranski,
‘La Maison’
, p. 164.

19 Testimony of Alexander Strekotin in Zhuk,
Ispoved tsareubiits
, p.

446 and variant of this on p 450.

20
Dnevniki
II, p. 497.

21
LD
, p. 175.

22 ‘The 90th Birthday of A. E. Portnoff’, accessible @: http://www.

holyres.org/en/?p=223

23 Peter Hudd (Hudiakovsky), taped reminiscences, University of

Illinois at Springfield Archives, accessible @: http://www.uis.edu/

archives/memoirs/HUDD.pdf

24 Shoumatoff,
Russian Blood
, p.142.

25 Peter Hudd (Hudiakovsky), taped reminiscences, University of

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NOTES

Illinois at Springfield Archives, accessible @: http://www.uis.edu/

archives/memoirs/HUDD.pdf

26 Ibid.

27 Storozhev’s testimony, in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 98.

28 Ibid., p. 100; Shoumatoff,
Russian Blood
, p. 142.

29 ‘Kak eto bylo’,
Tientsin Evening Journal
, Russian edition, 17 July 1948, front page.

30 Speranski,
‘La Maison’
,
p. 119. See also Starodumova statement in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, pp. 81–2

31 Speranksi,
‘La Maison’
, p. 120.

32 Statement of Pavel Medvedev, in Radzinsky,
Last Tsar
, p. 336.

33 Shoumatoff,
Russian Blood
, p. 142.

34 Christie’s catalogue, 29 November 2012, lot 116. Card sent from

Tobolsk, 29 March 1918.

Epilogue
: Victims of Repression

1
Dnevniki
II, p. 572.

2 See Alexei Volkov,
Souvenirs d’Alexis Volkov
(Paris: Payot, 1928); translated extracts can be found in Zeepvat, ‘Valet’s Story’.

3 For the experiences of Gibbes, Gilliard and Buxhoeveden after their separation from the Romanov family, see Trewin,
Tutor to the

Tsarevich
, Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
and Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind.

4 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 274. Gibbes brought the glass chandelier back with him to England. It was for a while kept in his chapel in

Oxford, and then was taken with the rest of the Gibbes collection of

Romanov memorabilia to Luton Hoo, until this country house was

sold off and developed into a hotel. Its present whereabouts is uncertain.

5 See Buxhoeveden,
Before the Storm
,
Life and Tragedy
and
Left Behind.

6 Shoumatoff,
Russian Blood
, p, 142.

7 In emigration in Harbin, Anatole Portnoff (see note 1) sang in Father Storozhev’s choir. Private information.

8 Private information.

9 See web site @: http://rt.com/news/members-of-russia-s-royal-family-rehabilitated/

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