Recently a very special camera was brought over from Switzerland to Tsarskoe Selo. This camera was donated to the Tsarskoe Selo Museum by the descendants of Pierre Gilliard, the tutor of Tsar Nicholas II’s children, who once purchased it in St Petersburg.
Gillard used this camera to take many photographs of the Romanov family.
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In spring of 1918, the Romanov family was moved to Ekaterinburg, a city in Russia’s Urals. There they were held captive in a house which belonged to engineer Ipatiev, where they would ultimately be killed.
The words “Ipatiev house” have since become associated with the murder of the Russian imperial family.
Below are the descriptions of the house from the letters of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, as well as photographs and rare contemporary video footage of the last residence of the Romanov family.
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Below is another rare video of the Romanov family with individual scene descriptions.
Enjoy!
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Before the Portrait of the Martyr Tsar
