Romanov Family Living History Tours

2018 TOUR

The Last Year in the Lives of the Romanov family

 

July of 2018 marks 100 years since the execution of the Romanovs, Russia’s last imperial family.

TOUR CONCEPT:

 

G.E.T Educational Tours is pleased to offer this wonderful opportunity to visit Russia on the 100th anniversary of the murders of its last imperial family. Led by historian, author and translator Helen Azar, the itinerary takes in all key sites throughout Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg, Tobolsk and Ekaterinburg as you follow in the steps of the Romanov family.

  The itinerary will center around the final 18 months of the life of the Romanov family (1916-1918). Their photographs, diaries and letters will be used to relive their experiences, from the revolution torn Petrograd to the “Red”Ekaterinburg.

Our journey will begin in Tsarskoe Selo with their wartime efforts at the military infirmaries, their attendance of daily prayer services at local churches, their visits to orphanages, and burials of their beloved patients at military cemeteries.

We will also follow the Romanov family members to places they regularly visited, such as Anna Vyrubova‘s house, the dacha at Peterhof, Yelagin Palace.  

In St Petersburg, we will enter the Yusupov Moika Palace where their “Friend” Grigori Rasputin was murdered in late 1916, and take a peek at the apartment on Gorokhovaya Street where the latter lived just prior to his death.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will relive the Tsar’s abdication and retrace his sad last ride from the imperial train station to the Alexander Palace. We will experience the family’s life under house arrest by walking around the Alexander Park in the exact paths they took walks followed by the guards; see where they worked on their kitchen garden, broke ice on canals, and cut trees for firewood..  

During our stay in St Petersburg, we will visit numerous other Romanov related places, including St Peter and Paul’s Cathedral where the imperial family’s remains are currently interred.

We will then follow the Romanov family to Siberia and enter the Governor’s mansion in Tobolsk, where they lived in captivity for almost a year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we head back towards the Urals through Tyumen, we will make a stop in Pokrovskoe Village –  Rasputin’s hometown. We will stand in the same spot the Romanovs stood – in front of Rasputin’s house, when on Easter of 1918 they changed horses during their transfer to Ekaterinburg. We will take a look inside Rasputin’s house to see how he and his family lived.  

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

We will then travel to the town of Alapaevsk, where Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna, the Tsarina’s sister, and other members of the extended Romanov family were imprisoned and ultimately murdered.  

Our journey will conclude in the Ural city of Ekaterinburg, where “The House of Special Purpose” – the last prison of the last Russian imperial family once stood. We will pay respects in the exact spot they were murdered exactly a century ago, and we will remember and honour them at their original burial site in the woods, then outside the city limits.

 

Dates and cost

 

We have now confirmed dates for the first tour (if there is enough interest, there will be a second). The dates are 2 July – 14 July, 2018 (with an option to remain in Ekaterinburg longer for “Tsarskie Dni” – the actual anniversary dates of 16-17 July). The places we will visit are: St Petersburg (we will be based in Tsarskoe Selo), Gatchina, Peterhof, Tobolsk, Tyumen, Pokrovskoe, Alapaevsk and Ekaterinburg.