Along with the tennis court in the area of Feodorovsky Gorodok, there was located another tennis court in the park near the Alexander Palace. It was a temporary court, covered in boards. Nicholas’ diary of June 13, 1915 “…played tennis with daughters which is again constructed of planks…” After the abdication, on May 12, 1917 “…came to see the work on a wooden folding ground for our tennis in the same place…”, on May 31, 1917 “…Day was successful work around the track, passing tennis …”, and on June 20, 1917 “…cut down four dead trees for tennis…”
As to the location of this temporary second planked tennis court, it may be the area between the bridge of the Children’s Island and the White Tower. Access for Nicholas in the garden areas after the revolution was the part located of the right wing. Later he was allowed to go further towards the Arsenal to cut wood. I have never read that the guards allowed him to walk around the Sobor nor Gorodok. It is possible that it would have been nearer the Children’s Island where he worked on the ice of the ponds and thought to have a temporary private tennis court built in 1915 as the one in the Gorodok was used by the hospital patients.
Joanna