The Romanov Sisters (Four Sisters) (80 page)

88 Benkendorf,
Last Days
, p. 49;
Dnevniki
I, pp. 588–9.

89 Ibid., p. 613; see also
Dnevniki
II, p. 11.

90 Bulygin,
Murder of the Romanovs
, pp. 119–20.

91
Dnevniki
I, p. 591.

92 Ibid., pp. 592, 593; Long,
Russian Revolution Aspects
, p. 240.

93 Melnik-Botkina,
Vospominaniya
, pp. 62–3.

94 Letter of 17 July, quoted in
Dnevniki
I, pp. 596–7.

95 Ibid., p. 606.

96 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 95; Naryshkin-Kurakin,
Under Three
Tsars
, p. 228.

97 Girardin,
Précepteur
, p. 119.

98 Buxhoeveden,
Life and Tragedy
, p. 306.

99
Dnevniki
I, p. 611.

100
NZ
182, p. 235.

101 ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 57, entry for 2 August.

102 Ibid.

103 Buxhoeveden,
Life and Tragedy
, pp. 305–6;
NZ
182, p. 236.

104 Kerensky,
Catastrophe
, p. 275; Bulygin,
Murder of the Romanovs
, p.

129.

105
Dnevniki
II, p. 8. This railway worker eyewitness does not make any mention of the train’s Red Cross affiliation.

106 Dorr,
Inside the Russian Revolution
, p. 137.

107
NZ
182, p. 237.

108 ‘Vospominaniya o Marii Fedorovne Geringere’, ff. 38, 39.

109 Galitzine,
Spirit to Survive
, p. 60.

110 Richard Abraham,
Alexander Kerensky
(London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987), p. 157; Kerensky,
Catastrophe
, p.
275; ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 57, entry for 2

August.

111 ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’ in Kovalevskaya
S Tsarem
p. 57, entry for 2 August.

112 Bykov,
Last Days of Tsardom
, p. 40; Naryshkin-Kurakin
, Under
Three Tsars
, p. 229.

113 Melnik-Botkina,
Vospominaniya
, p. 63.

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114 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 75.

115
Dnevniki
II, p. 8.

116
NZ
182, p. 237.

Chapter 19
: On Freedom Street

1 Dorr,
Inside the Russian Revolution
, p. 139.

2 Long,
Russian Revolution Aspects
, p. 241.

3 Archive documents show that there was concern even in August

among the authorities in the Urals that the train was headed all the

way to Harbin, the secret plan thought to be to evacuate the family to Japan. See TsAGOR CCCP f. 1235 (VTsIK) op.53.D.19.L.91 quoted

in Ioffe,
Revolyutsiya I semya Romanovykh
, p. 197.

4 ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 57, entry for 2 August.

5 Ibid., p. 58.

6 Ibid., p. 59.

7 Ibid.

8
Dnevniki
II, p. 17.

9 ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 60, entry for 4 August.

10 Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, p. 155.

11 Dorr,
Inside the Russian Revolution
, p. 140.

12 Sergeant Major Petr Matveev, ‘Notes and Reminiscences about

Nicholas Romanov’, in Sverdlovsk Archives; quoted in Radzinsky,

Last Tsar
,
p. 192.

13
Dnevniki
II, p. 21.

14 Durland,
Red Reign
, p. 373; De Windt,
Russia as I Know It
, p. 121.

15 Durland,
Red Reign
, pp. 373–4; De Windt,
Russia as I Know It
, pp.

121–2.

16 Dorr,
Inside the Russian Revolution
, p.
140. See also Kerensky quoted in
Dnevniki
I, pp. 589–90.

17 Letter to Zinaida Tolstaya, Nepein,
Pered Rasstrelom
, p. 136.

18 Vasily Dolgorukov, letter to his brother, 14 August; quoted in
LP
, p. 583.

19 ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 65; Buxhoeveden,
Life and Tragedy
, pp. 310–11; ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S.

Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, pp. 62–3.

20 Melnik-Botkina,
Vospominaniya
, p. 69.

21
LP
, p. 583.

22
Dnevniki
II, pp. 29–30.

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23 The jury is still out on Derevenko’s behaviour after the revolution.

Having been extremely well paid and well treated by the Imperial

Family, who extended their generosity to his children and even his

sick relatives, Derevenko appears to have been sent away having

been discovered to have been pilfering from Alexey’s belongings.

From Petrograd he sent numerous requests to rejoin the family in

Tobolsk (which suggests he still had a degree of loyalty to the

family), but was never allowed to travel there, leading to accusa-

tions that he had betrayed them. He is thought to have died of

typhus in Petrograd in 1921. See Zimin
Detskii Mir
, pp.
86–8.

24
Dnevniki
II, p. 50; see Maria’s letter of 17 May, in Nepein,
Pered
Rasstrelom
, p. 166.

25 This description has been drawn from surviving photographs of

the girls’ room, of which three, taken from different angles, have

survived. See e.g. Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
,
pp. 84–5. A very damaged photograph sent to Katya Zborovskaya can be found at

EEZ.

26 ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 68.

27
Dnevniki
II, p. 30.

28 Anastasia letter to Katya, no. 13, 15 August, EEZ.

29 Bulygin,
Murder of the Romanovs
, p. 195; Elizabeth Zinovieff,
A
Princess Remembers
(New York: Galitzine, 1997), p. 119.

30 Chernova,
Vernye
,
p. 449;
NZ
2, pp. 246, 248. ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S.

Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 65; Wilton and Telberg,
Last Days of the Romanovs
, p. 183. Khitrovo later wrote her own account under her married name: M. Erdeli, ‘Razyasnenie o moei

poezdke v Tobolsk’,
Dvuglavyi orel
, no. 30, 1922, pp. 6–11. For a detailed discussion of the incident see Ioffe,
Revolyutsiya i semya
Romanovykh
,
pp. 201–7 and Chernova,
Vernye
,
pp 447–53.

Buxhoeveden,
Life and Tragedy,
pp. 314–15.

31 Radzinsky,
Last Tsar
, p. 199.

32
Dnevniki
II, p. 64.

33 See Olga’s letter to PVP: 23 November, in
Dnevniki
II, p. 175.

34 Letter to Maria Feodorovna, 27 October, quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p.

138.

35 Pankratov memoirs quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 75.

36 Schneider letter to PVP, 9 October 1917, quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p.

114.

37 Brewster,
Anastasia’s Album
, p. 53.

38 See e.g.
Dnevniki
II, pp. 45, 46, 52, 54, 55. For Nicholas see ibid., e.g. pp. 54–5.

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39 Ibid., p. 47.

40 Radzinsky,
Last Tsar
, p. 195.

41 Buxhoeveden,
Life and Tragedy
, p. 313.

42
Dnevniki
II, p. 72. See also Tatiana’s description in a letter to Xenia, Nepein,
Pered Rasstrelom
, pp.147–8.

43 Pankratov quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 73.

44 Pankratov, quoted in
Fall
, p. 265.

45 Anastasia, letter to Katya, no. 14, 20 September, EEZ.

46
Dnevniki
II, p. 80.

47 ‘Iz Dnevnika A. S. Demidovoi’, in Kovalevskaya,
S Tsarem
, p. 670.

48
Dnevniki
II, p. 87;
Fall
, pp. 265–6.

49 Quoted in ibid., p. 86.

50 Quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 106.

51
Dnevniki
II, p. 88.

52 Vyrubova
, Memories
, p. 325.

53 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 73.

54 Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 424.

55
Dnevniki
II, p.148.

56 Pankratov quoted in ibid., p. 142. For a translated extract of

Pankratov’s memoirs, see
Fall
, pp. 259–97, though this does not always match the original Russian extracts quoted in
Dnevniki
.

57 Gibbes, untitled TS memoir, Bodleian, f. 8.

58 Ibid., f. 12.

59 Pankratov quoted in
Dnevniki
II, pp. 160–1.

60 Anastasia letter to Katya, no. 16, 8 October, EEZ.

61 Quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 112.

62 Ibid., p. 128.

63 Ibid., p. 129.

64 Ibid., p. 148.

65 Quoted in
Fall
, pp. 199–200.

66
Dnevniki
II, p. 139.

67 Quoted in ibid., p. 138.

68 Ibid., p. 139.

69 Ibid., pp. 163, 168.

Chapter 20
: Thank God We Are Still in Russia and All Together 1
Dnevniki
II, p. 150. See also Nicholas’s letter to Xenia, 9 November, ibid., p. 159.

2 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 72;
Dnevniki
II, p. 159.

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NOTES

3
Fall
, p. 201.

4
Dnevniki
II, p. 161.

5 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 243.

6 Bowra,
Memories
, p. 66.

7
Dnevniki
II, p. 164.

8 Anastasia letter to Katya, 14 November, EEZ.

9 Ibid., 21 November, EEZ.

10 Quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 176.

11 Ibid., p. 85.

12 Nepein,
Pered Rasstrelom
, p. 163.

13 Ibid., p. 126.

14 Ibid., p. 158.

15 Quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 183.

16 Ibid., p. 197.

17 Vyrubova,
Memories
, p. 242.

18 Letter to Zinaida Tolstaya, 10 December, quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p.

199; Anastasia, letter to Katya, no. 22, 10 December, EEZ.

19 See
Dnevniki
II, p. 193–4. Other plays would follow in the New Year on 14, 21, 28 January, 4, 11, 18 and 25 February (OS). See

Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, pp. 78–83.

20
Dnevniki
II, p. 199.

21 Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind
, p. 29.

22 Vyrubova,
Memories
, p. 249.

23
Fall
, p. 211; Vyrubova,
Memories
, p. 318.

24 Ibid.,
p. 313;
Fall
, pp. 213–14.

25 See
Dnevniki
II, p. 216; Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind
, pp. 23– 4.

26 Ibid.

27 Nepein,
Pered Rasstrelom
, p. 121.

28
Dnevniki
II, p. 224.

29 Letter to PVP, 27 December,
Dnevniki
II, p. 218.

30 Anastasia, letter to Katya, 5 December, EEZ.

31 Buxhoeveden,
Left Behind
, p. 29.

32 Quoted in
Dnevniki
II, p. 224.

33 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 128.

34 Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, pp. 178–9.

35
Dnevniki
II, p. 230.

36
Dnevniki
II, p. 230; Buxhoeveden,
Life and Tragedy
, p. 313.

37 Harry de Windt, ‘Ex Czar’s Place of Exile: A Picture of Tobolsk’, reproduced from
Manchester Guardian
in
Poverty Bay Herald
, 6

Feburary 1918.

38 See Alexey diary, in Eugénie de Grèce,
Le Tsarévitch
, p. 207;
441

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NOTES

Hendrikova in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 226. Massie,
Last Diary
, p. 21, confirms that Anastasia did indeed contract measles, though

some sources deny this. It is also confirmed in letter to Katya, no.

25, 19 January 1918, EEZ.

39 Alexandra, letter to Anna Vyrubova,
Memories
,
p. 327.

40 Letter no. xx, 26 January 1918, EEZ.

41 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 253.

42 For the cold that winter, see Anastasia to Anna Vyrubova 23

January 1918 in Vyrubova,
Memories
,
p. 327; Olga, letter to Rita Khitrovo, 21 January 1918 in Nepein,
Pered Rasstrelom
, p. 129; Nicholas, diary entries for 17–23 January,
Dnevniki
II, pp. 258–65.

43 See Anastasia to Katya, letter, 26 January, EEZ; Nepein,
Pered
Rassrelom
, p. 129.

44 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 253.

45 Nicholas [Gibbes], ‘Ten Years’, p. 12; Buxhoeveden,
Life and

Tragedy
, p. 322.

46 Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, pp. 178–9.

47 Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, p. 245.

48 Bitner in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, pp. 422–3.

49 Trewin,
Tutor to the Tsarevich
, p. 73.

50 Bitner in Ross,
Gibel tsarskoy semi
, p. 423.

51 See e.g. letter to Zinaida Tolstaya, 14 January 1918, Coutau-

Begari, p. 35 and to Valentina Chebotareva, 12 January 1918, in

Alferev,
Pisma iz zatocheniya
, p. 200.

52
Pravoslavnaya zhizn
July 1968, no. 7 pp. 3–4. The provenance of this extract is confirmed in Princess Barbara Dolgorouky’s unpublished memoirs - ‘Gone For Ever: Some Pages from My Life in