Final Translations of AP Rooms from Yakolev's 1928 Book

[20. Heir’s Pantry]

Left Wing - 2nd Floor

20. Heir’s Pantry

The walls of this room and the two adjacent bathrooms are painted in white mastic oil

A tiled area for heating food has a hot water boiler with a spare water tank under the ceiling. This hot water tank supplied the sink in this room and the two bathrooms. The floor is covered with linoleum.

The pantry furniture are few – two tables, a stool and buffet. It is illuminated with a block lamp with a green shade. On the rear wall is a numbered electric bell board.

21. Servant’s Bathroom

The cast iron enameled bathtub is supplied, as already mentioned, from the hot water tank of the pantry and the room is heated by the same hot water through a ribbed column.

22. Tutor P. Gilliard’s Bathroom

The room is similarly arranged as the previous bathroom but with another sink with cold water as well as hot water from the pantry tank.

The walls are lined with several drawings – clippings from “Modern Times” depicting caricatures of the German Kaiser during the last war.

Joanna

[23. Study of Tutor P. Gilliard]

Left Wing - 2nd Floor

23. Study of Tutor P. Gilliard
The walls are painted in white mastic oil.  The ceiling is framed with cornice molding. The floor has a Bobrikov green carpet. The English chintz curtain is the same as in the tutor’s bedroom. The room is illuminated with a ceiling light fixture.

The furniture is in the Empire style with the exception of two pieces.

In the cabinet, walls and chest of drawers are photographs and engravings depicting members of the dynasty and foreign relations previously located in the room of the Lady-in-Waiting S. Buxhoeveden. Also in the cabinet are several books by Western European authors (some of which are of the French Revolution) that belonged to S. Buxhoeveden. On the side wall at the entrance to the bathroom hangs a timetable for November 1st, 1916 of the suburban train schedules to Petrograd – Pavlovsk – Vyritsa; on the other wall is a map of the southern theatre of the Great War.

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24. Bedroom of Tutor P. Gilliard

The walls of both this room, the adjacent corridor, the on-duty doctor, and sailor Nagorny are covered with light frosted wallpaper. The partition that separates the corridor is of a random nature and therefore only three sides of the room has cornice molding.

There is a small amount of oak and ashwood furniture. The nickel bed is in the back corner behind a screen, covered in red silk.

The room and the corridor are illuminated with ceiling crystal lanterns. The floor is covered with a strip of carpet.

In the oak wardrobe is a khaki tunic belonging to the tutor.

At the toilet hangs his card:

Pierre Gilliard
Professeur
de L.L.A.A.I.I. les Enfants Impériaux
St. Pétersbourg

Joanna

Pierre Gilliard
Professeur
de L.L.A.A.I.I. les Enfants Impériaux
St. Pétersbourg

I don't mean to sound dumb, but can anyone tell me what "de L.L.A.A.I.I. les Enfant Imperiaux" might mean?

Joanna, great job in providing this to everyone!

Bob G

Pierre Gilliard
Professeur
de L.L.A.A.I.I. les Enfants Impériaux
St. Pétersbourg

I don't mean to sound dumb, but can anyone tell me what "de L.L.A.A.I.I. les Enfant Imperiaux" might mean?

Joanna, great job in providing this to everyone!

Bob G

I'll take a shot at it. I think it says something like "professor of their imperial highnesses, the imperial children." Perhaps L.L.A.A.I.I. stands for "Les or Leurs Altesses Impériales?"

 Joanna, many thanks. This is fantastic and a true labour of love. For me and I am sure for most of you, it felt as if we were going through the rooms (at least in our mind's eye), trying to recollect the details and form impressions. I could close my eyes and see the rooms, softly lit...the Romanovs passing through, going about their daily activities. Especially the small but personalised details about the contents of the GDs' bed side tables, their prayer books and Bibles, touches my heart so much...thank you once again. Reading about the rooms in this detailed account, in my opinion, is second best to going there in person.