The Romanovs & MR Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsar by Frances Welch

The Romanovs & MR Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsar

Frances Welch

125 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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Sydney Gibbes was appointed tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II in 1908 and over the next six years lived as one of the family in the royal palace. A demanding, fastidious man, he found the Romanovs bizarrely devout and insular. Yet he came ...

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