The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes : The Story of an Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsars

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 to hold them all in deep affection.