XIII. THE CZAR AT THE DUMA--THE CAMPAIGN IN GALICIA--OUR LIFE AT G.H.Q.--GROWING DISAFFECTION IN THE REAR (1916) 161 XIV. POLITICAL TENSION--THE DEATH OF RASPUTIN (DECEMBER, 1916) 177 XV. THE REVOLUTION--THE ABDICATION OF NICHOLAS II. (MARCH, 1917) 187 XVI. THE CZAR NICHOLAS II. 203 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 EPILOGUE 299 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Czar clearing snow at Tsarskoïe-Selo _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ The Czarevitch in the park of Tsarskoïe-Selo 20 The four Grand-Duchesses in 1909 20 The Czarina before her marriage 26 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 Czarevitch with his dog “Joy” 70 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 four Grand-Duchesses, 1914 92 The Czar and Czarevitch examining a captured German machine-gun, 1914 110 The Czar and Czarevitch before the barbed wire, 1915 110