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The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family. Compiled from the papers of Charles Sydney Gibbes (1876-1963). By J. C. Trewin (editor). An eyewitness description of the last years and final days of the ill-fated Romanovs. From 1908, Gibbes served as the English tutor to the children of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II. When he and his family were taken captive by Bolshevik revolutionaries, Gibbes went along to Tobolsk and recorded their fate in his notebooks all the while taking hundreds of photographs. Eventually, in 1918, the Imperial family was moved to the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, and Gibbes was barred from staying with them. After their execution, Gibbes became a Russian Orthodox priest. He died in 1963.
NY: Stein and Day, 1975. 1st printing, hardcover, 148 pages, profusely illustrated. Dustjacket has some edge wear, now housed in a clear protective jacket cover. Some light soil to jacket and bottom edge, no ownership marks. 1 copy only.
