XVII. THE REVOLUTION SEEN FROM THE ALEXANDER PALACE--THE CZAR’S RETURN TO TSARSKOÏE-SELO 209
XVIII. FIVE MONTHS’ CAPTIVITY AT TSARSKOÏE-SELO (MARCH-AUGUST, 1917) 221
XIX. OUR CAPTIVITY AT TOBOLSK (AUGUST-DECEMBER, 1917) 239
XX. END OF OUR CAPTIVITY AT TOBOLSK (JANUARY-MAY, 1918) 251
XXI. EKATERINBURG--THE MURDER OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY DURING THE NIGHT OF JULY 16-17TH, 1918 269
XXII. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CRIME ESTABLISHED BY THE ENQUIRY 281
The Czar clearing snow at Tsarskoïe-Selo _Frontispiece_
The Czarevitch in the park of Tsarskoïe-Selo 20
The Czarevitch at the age of fifteen months 26
The Grand-Duchesses Marie and Anastasie in theatrical costume 30
The Czarina at the Czarevitch’s bedside 30
The four Grand-Duchesses gathering mushrooms 40
The Czarevitch cutting corn he had sown at Peterhof 40
Letter to the author from the Grand-Duchess Olga Nicolaïevna, 1914 60
The Czarina and the Czarevitch in the court of the palace at Livadia 74
The Czarina sewing in the Grand-Duchesses’ room 74
Excursion to the “Red Rock” on May 8th, 1914 92
The Czar and Czarevitch examining a captured German machine-gun, 1914 110
The Czar and Czarevitch before the barbed wire, 1915 110
The Czar and Czarevitch on the banks of the Dnieper, 1916 148
The Czar and Czarevitch near Mohileff, 1916 148
The Czar and Czarevitch at a religious service at G.H.Q., Mohileff 154
The Grand-Duchesses visiting the family of a railway employee 166
The Czarina and Grand-Duchess Tatiana talking to refugees 166
The Grand-Duchess Marie as a convalescent 212
The four Grand-Duchesses in the park at Tsarskoïe-Selo 212
The Czarina’s room in the Alexander Palace 216
The Czar, his children and their companions in captivity working in the park 222
The Czar working in the kitchen-garden 226
The Czarina, in an invalid chair, working at some embroidery 226
The Grand-Duchess Tatiana carrying turf 230
The Czar and his servant Juravsky sawing the trunk of a tree 230
The Grand-Duchesses Tatiana and Anastasie taking a water-butt to the kitchen-garden 234
The Imperial family’s suite at Tsarskoïe-Selo, 1917 234
The Grand-Duchess Tatiana a prisoner in the park of Tsarskoïe-Selo 240
Alexis Nicolaïevitch joins the Grand-Duchess 240
The Czar and his children in captivity enjoying the sunshine at Tobolsk 246