Captivity photo's

[JamesAPrattIII]

The book "the House of Special purpose" has the photos of Schneider and Hendrikova they were taken by Gibbes who also took the two pictures on the Rus. The book has a number of other pictures taken by him at this time. I think it has a picture of Gilliard on the train to Ekterinburg. Sadly there are other pictures of these two women in the book "The Sokolov Investigation" of their remains. They were murdered along with a group of hostages outside Perm on 4 September 1918 in reprisal for the assassination attempt the badly wounded V.I. Lenin. Throughout Russia tens of thousands people were murdered for little or no reason by the Bolsheviks. It was the beginning of the Red Terror.

 They also passed a decree on 4 September On taking hostages to be executed in reprisal for future attacks on Bolshevik leaders or any other opposition to Bolshevik rule.

5 September "Resolution" class enemies of the regime were to be isolated in concentration camps and all persons with links to White guard organizations, conspiracies and seditious actions need to be subject to immediate execution.

The Bolshevik Commissar for Justice N.V. Krylenko" We must ececute not only the guilty: execution of the innocent will impress the masses even more"

[Lady Macduff]

In Rappaport's Four Sisters there is a mention of Gibbes taking a picture of the tarantass the empress traveled in the morning they left Tobolsk. Has anyone ever come across this picture? I've never seen it mentioned anywhere else.

[Sarushka]

It's in Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas & Alexandra, by Peter Kurth. Page 181.

[nena]

It was posted on this Forum long time ago:

[Lady Macduff]

Never going to stop being amazed by you folks.

[blessOTMA]

Also about 100 photos belonging to  Hendrikova  were found in  Perm when the Whites took over . A few were auctioned off in the 90's

[JamesAPrattIII]

In flipping through the book the Romanov Sisters in a bookstore Anna Demidova did take a number of pictures of the IF and left them with her family when she went with the IF to Siberia. The family burned the photos during Stalin's time. I have read where other people who had pictures of the IF did this as well it was just too much of a risk to be caught with them. The book "Memoirs of a Survivor" I think points out the Soviet secret police did confiscate quite a lot of written material over the years. I also believe towards the end of Communism 1991 the then KGB is reported to have burned a lot of records ect. It sort of make s you wonder what was lost, destroyed, or possibly may be still be sitting around somewhere in some archive ect.

[rosieposie]

I just spent a lovely evening looking through this thread.   Wonderful finds in such sad circumstances.

[Antonina]

It was posted on this Forum long time ago:

A bit bigger:

[Antonina]

V. A. Dolgorukov in Tobolsk.

Camer-fourier Alexander Petrovich Kirpichnikov, in Tobolsk acted as a yard-keeper.

9/22 of May 1918, the way from Tumen to Yekaterinburg. Gilliard, Tegleva, Ersberg.

Klaudia Mikhailovna Bitner, 1899.

[Antonina]

Christmas 1918. Father Nikolai Vasiliev.

[Antonina]

Oh! Sorry, Alexey Vasiliev, of course, not Nikolai. Home church, Tobolsk.



Annunciation Church in Tobolsk, where the imperial family used to go for the service.

View from the second floor of the Governor's house.

[Antonina]

Alexei's bed in Tobolsk.
All of these pictures are from the new book about Gibbs, sorry if they have been already posted. Sorry for "bayans" as it is said in Russian))

[nena]

Antonina, marvellous! "Spasbo", as it is said in Russian. :-)

[amelia]

Antonina,

What is the titte of the new book about Gibbs?

Thanks
Eva McDonald