Paul Gilbert (retired) standing outside the State Historical Museum in Moscow
In August 2021, I began publishing books through AMAZON in hardcover, paperback and eBook editions. This includes new titles, translations, reprints of out of print memoirs and old favourites, and unfinished titles, from my years as an independent publisher (1994-2021).
AMAZON does all the printing, packaging and distribution of all of the titles, which allows me to continue researching and writing new works in my retirement.
In order to make these titles affordable to all, I have kept the price of each title at a minimum. The large sized hardcover and colour titles cost more to produce, therefore they are priced higher. I earn a small royalty from the sale of each book sold, which will help supplement my monthly government pension.
Although I retired from both publishing and bookselling in October 2021, I will continue to research and write about the life and reign of Emperor Nicholas II and his family. This new publishing project with AMAZON has already proven to be of great assistance to me in my personal mission to clear the name of Russia’s much slandered Tsar.
I have published more than 30 titles to date through AMAZON – with many additional titles planned. These include both new titles and those which have been out of print for many years. Please review my current catalogue below – which will be updated regularly. Listings provide a full description for each title, pricing and a Look inside feature.
If you have any questions, please contact me by e-mail royalrussia@yahoo.com
PAUL GILBERT
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English. 164 pages, 36 black & white photos
Romanov historian and royal expert Coryne Hall writes about the relationships between Emperor Nicholas II with the three British monarchs who ruled during his 22-year reign.
The author has researched the relationships between Russia’s last Tsar with those of Queen Victoria – from 1894 to 1901; King Edward VII – from 1901 to 1910; and King George V – from 1910 to 1917. Her research is complemented with letters, diary entries and photographs.
The four essays presented in this volume were originally published in four successive issues of Sovereign, the semi-annual publication dedicated to the study of the life and reign of Emperor Nicholas II. They are presented here for the first time in one volume.
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English. Large 8-1/2″ x 11″ format, 256 pages, 300+ black & white photos
In this book, you will find more than 130 articles and news stories about exhibitions, new monuments, portraits, polls on Nicholas II’s popularity in post-Soviet Russia, updates on the restoration of the Alexander Palace, events marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas II and the 100th anniversary of his death and martyrdom, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ekaterinburg remains and much more.
These articles and news stories were originally published in Sovereign (2015-2020) and Royal Russia (2011-2020). Both of these periodicals are no longer published, the back issues out of print, therefore, I am pleased to offer these important materials in one concise volume. They are complemented with more than 300 black and white photographs, many of which have never been published in any Western newspaper, magazine or book. Each article has been sourced from Russian media and archival sources, and translated into English.
While this collection of articles and news stories, may not appeal to every one, it will prove a valuable research tool for those studying the life and reign of Nicholas II, particularly as he is perceived in modern-day Russia.
THE MURDER OF THE ROMANOVS: THE AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT
by Paul Petrovich Bulygin and Alexander Kerensky
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English. 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ format, 336 pages, illustrated
Bulygin’s memoirs are of great historical importance, providing details of the last days of Emperor Nicholas II and his family, and the investigation into their murder, which continues to this day. Originally published in 1935, this is the first English-language edition in nearly 90 years!
This book falls into two parts: the first by Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881-1970), the second by Captain Paul Petrovich Bulygin (1896-1936). Both Bulygin and Kerensky write from personal experience and eye-witness accounts.
In the first part, Provisional Party leader Alexander Kerensky offers a firsthand account of the events leading to the downfall of the Russian monarchy in February 1917. Kerensky outlines the background, and the steps leading to the regicide. He explains in his own words, his personal impressions of Nicholas II, his family and his entourage. He goes on to discuss why he chose to send the Tsar and his family into exile to Tobolsk. The main body of his memoirs, however, is a first hand account of the murder, of the abortive attempts to forestall it, and attempts to rescue the Imperial Family, told with a fervour and horror that time has failed to erase.
In the second part, Captain Paul Bulygin recalls the last months and death of Emperor Nicholas II and his family. Bulygin, who was a member of the Imperial Guard, reconstructs his role in both an attempt to rescue the Imperial Family, during their captivity in Ekaterinburg, from April to July 1918.
Paul Bulygin served as an officer in the Russian Imperial Army, formerly in command of the personal guard of Nicholas II’s mother the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. In 1919, he assisted Nikolai Sokolov, in his investigation of their death in Ekaterinburg.
Bulygin argues that the order to murder the Tsar and his family came directly from Lenin.
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Large 8-1/2″ x 11″ format, 242 pages, featuring
400+ black & white photos
BOOK DESCRIPTION
This richly illustrated pictorial is a celebration of the beauty and splendour of a lost world: Imperial Russia during the reign of Emperor Nicholas II, from 1894 to 1917.
More than 400+ black and white photographs showcase Imperial residences, country estates and manor houses, dachas, churches, government buildings, hotels, restaurants, historic events, people and much more.
The Lost World of Imperial Russia, is a remarkable photographic record of one of the world’s greatest empires—one that both attracts and eludes description.
While many of the architectural gems of Imperial Russia have survived to the present day, many others have been lost to history: revolution, civil war, two world wars and 70+ years of Soviet dogma have each taken their toll on Russia’s rich architectural heritage. Many of the photographs in this album remain the only evidence of their existence.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
In the autumn of 2018, people from nearly a dozen countries gathered in Colchester, England for a conference marking the 150th anniversary of the birth and the 100th anniversary of the death martyrdom of Russia’s last tsar Nicholas II.
Five speakers, including Paul Gilbert, Archpriest Andrew Philips (ROCOR), Nikolai Krasnov, authors Frances Welch and Marilyn Swezey presented seven papers on Nicholas II.
Topics included “A Century of Treason, Cowardice and Lies,” “Why Nicholas II is a Saint in the Russian Orthodox Church,” “Nicholas II and the Sacredness of a Monarchy,” “Nicholas II in Post-Soviet Russia,” and several more.
The original edition of these proceedings published in 2018 is now out of print. This new revised and updated edition of include three additional articles, plus a comprehensive bibliography featuring more than 100 English-language titles on the life, reign and era of Russia’s much slandered Tsar.
Large format 8-1/2″ x 11″ hard cover and paperback editions, 136 pages +50 COLOUR and black & white photos
TSAR’S DAYS: JOURNEY TO EKATERINBURG
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On 17th July 2018, independent researcher and writer Paul Gilbert travelled to Ekaterinburg, to take part in the events marking the 100th anniversary of the Tsar’s death and martyrdom.
In his own words and photographs, the author shares his experiences and impressions of this historic event, which include visits to the Church on the Blood, Ganina Yama, Porosenkov Log, the Patriarchal Liturgy, exhibitions, and much more.
Gilbert’s solemn journey to the Urals allowed him to experience history in the making, and to honour the memory of the Holy Royal Martyrs, a century after their death and martyrdom.
Large format 8-1/2″ x 11″ hard cover and paperback editions, 152 pages + 200 COLOUR PHOTOS, 65 of which were taken by the author.
KOSTYA: GRAND DUKE KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
This is the first English language publication, dedicated to one of the most beloved and highly respected members of the Romanov dynasty: Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (1858-1915).
The Introduction by independent researcher Paul Gilbert, explores Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich’s moral struggle with homosexuality, and the little-known attempt by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, to plunder the grand duke’s tomb, located in the Grand Ducal Mausoleum of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
Also featured are first English translations of biographical studies of Grand Duke Konstantin, by two prominent Russian Romanov historians: Chief Curator of Pavlovsk Palace Alexei Guzanov and author and lecturer Zoia Beliakova.
In addition, are the memories of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, written by two of his children: Prince Gabriel (1887–1955) and Princess Vera (1906-2001), both of whom died in exile.
Paperback edition, with 142 pages + 36 black & white photographs
NICHOLAS II: RUSSIA’S LAST ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MONARCH
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This book is not only for Orthodox and non-Orthodox persons, but for any one who shares an interest in the life, death, and martyrdom of the Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II.
An illustrated Introduction by independent researcher Paul Gilbert explores the piety of Nicholas II, and his devotion to the Russian Orthodox Church, which reached its fullest development and power, during his 22-year reign.
This book further examines the trials and tribulations the Tsar endured, which later led to his canonization by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Paperback edition, with 134 pages + 23 black & white photographs
RUSSIA’S TREASURE OF DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES
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Also known as the Fersman Catalogue, this book documents the Romanov jewels seized from the Imperial Family in 1917. The Bolshevik government attempted to sell them in the 1920s, with only limited success. Originally published as a four-part folio in 1925, this highly sought after historic record is now available in a book format [both hardcover and paperback editions] for the very first time.
Large format 8-1/2″ x 11″ hard cover and paperback editions, 206 pages + 100 black & white photos
NICHOLAS II. PORTRAITS
by Paul Gilbert
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Nicholas II. Portraits explores a century of portraits of Russia’s last emperor and tsar, through the eyes of pre-revolutionary and contemporary Russian, and foreign artists.
Originally published in 2019, with 140 pages with 175 black and white photos, this new expanded edition features more pages and more photographs: 180 pages + more than 200 photos, including 185 FULL COLOUR and 30 black & white! The colour photographs really bring the many ceremonial portraits of Nicholas II to life.
In addition, are many portraits painted during his reign by both Russian and foreign artists, as well as those by contemporary Russian artists. My book also features a small section of portraits of the Tsar with his family.
Large format 8-1/2″ x 11″ hard cover and paperback editions, with 178 pages + richly illustrated with more than 200 Colour and black & white photographs
THE CORONATION OF TSAR NICHOLAS II
Compiled and Edited by Paul Gilbert
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Six eyewitness accounts of the crowning of Russia’s last tsar with more than 200 rare vintage photographs & illustrations
The pomp and pageantry surrounding the Coronation of Nicholas II is told through the eye-witness accounts of six people who attended this historic event at Moscow, held over a three week period from 6th (O.S.) to 26th (O.S.) May 1896.
Hard cover and paperback editions, with 456 pages + more than 200 black & white photographs
LAST YEARS OF THE COURT AT TSARSKOE SELO – 2 Volumes
by Alexander Spiridovitch
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Originally published in French in 1928, this is the FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION of both volumes – a MUST read for any one interested in the life and reign of Emperor Nicholas II.
Alexander Ivanovich Spiridovitch (1873-1952) was handpicked by Emperor Nicholas II to serve as his personal security chief from 1906-1916. He was also responsible for the security of the tsar’s residences.
Volume I – 1906-1910, with 458 pages + 59 black & white photographs
Volume II – 1910-1914, with 480 pages + 65 black & white photographs
LOST SPLENDOR
by Prince Felix Youssoupoff
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
An astonishing memoir brings you deep inside the world of majesty and intrigue at the end of the Romanov dynasty. Here is an extraordinary personal history which has all the excitement of a thriller—and is also important in the history of one of the greatest events of modern times.
Paperback edition, with 370 pages + 29 black & white photographs
BONES OF CONTENTION:
The Russian Orthodox Church & the Ekaterinburg Remains
by Paul Gilbert
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Originally published in 2020, this NEW REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION features an additional 40 pages, new chapters and 90 black and white photos.
In May 2022, the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, will convene in Moscow during which they will review the findings of the Investigative Commission and deliver their verdict on the authenticity of the Ekaterinburg Remains.
This is the first English language title to explore the position the highly contentious issue of the Russian Orthodox Church’s position on the Ekaterinburg remains. The author’s research for this book is based exclusively on documents from the office of the Moscow Patriarchate, as well as Russian media and archival sources.
Paperback edition. 206 pages. + 90 black & white photographs
ROMANOV RELATIONS: VOLUME II
Compiled and Edited by Paul Gilbert
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In this second volume of Romanov Relations, we learn about several little known members of the Russian Imperial Family, among them are Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna, her father Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich, and Grand Dukes Alexis Alexandrovich and Nicholas Mikhailovich.
Paperback edition. 186 pages + 38 black & white photographs
Romanov Relations: Volume I
Compiled and Edited by Paul Gilbert
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Romanov Relations is a multi-volume set of books, with each volume offering a collection of out-of-print articles, about the emperors, empresses, grand dukes and grand duchesses, as well as their descendants. Volume One includes 5 chapters, some of which are divided into numerous sub-chapters.
Paperback edition. 234 pages + 70 black & white photographs
MEMORIES IN THE MARBLE PALACE
by Prince of the Imperial Blood Gabriel Constantinovich
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FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the memoirs of Prince Gabriel Constantinovich (1887-1955), the second son of the Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich. This is the story of a member of the Romanov dynasty who lived to tell his story of life at the Russian Imperial Court, in its twilight years before the First World War.
Paperback edition. 338 pages. Illustrated
DEAREST MAMA . . . DARLING NICKY:
Letters Between Emperor Nicholas II and His Mother Empress Maria Feodorovna 1879-1917
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Written between the years 1879, when Nicky was a little boy, and 1917, after his abdication, this collection of more than 200 letters are a revelation of the personalities of the Emperor and his Empress mother. They were never part of the imperial archives but the cherished possession of both correspondents, carried with them wherever they went. At the outbreak of the revolution, the letters were confiscated by the Soviets.
Paperback edition. 246 pages.
VERA: Princess of the Imperial Blood Vera Konstantinovna
Compiled and Edited by Paul Gilbert
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Princess Vera (1906- 2001), was the youngest child of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich. By the time she fled Bolshevik Russia in October 1918, she had already lost half of her family. Vera was the only Romanov who remembered pre-revolutionary life and her legendary relatives, including Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna [her god-mother], and was a playmate to their younger children. Princess Vera died on 11 January 2001, at the age of 95.
Paperback edition. 148 pages + 75 black & white photographs
Petrograd: The City of Trouble, 1914-1918
by Meriel Buchanan
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A compelling first-person account by the daughter of the British Ambassador to Imperial Russia Sir George Buchanan, who provides a lively and accurate account of the 1917 Revolution, and the terror and horror the new Bolshevik order had on the Russian people.
Paperback edition. 202 pages.
Emperor Nicholas II As I Knew Him
by Sir John Hanbury Williams
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In this compelling and intimate series of diary entries, originally published in 1922, Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams (1859-1946) depicts Nicholas II “not as history knows him, but as he knew him.”
Paperback edition. 196 pages.
MISHA: GRAND DUKE MICHAEL ALEXANDROVICH
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This book explores the milestones in the life of Grand Duke Michael in a series of essays by four distinct authors, and complemented with 50 black and white photographs.
Paperback edition. 136 pages + 50 black & white photographs
MEMOIRS OF THE PAGES TO TSAR NICHOLAS II
by Dr. Thomas E. Berry
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The young men of the Corps des Pages, served Nicholas II and his family. This collection of 18 memoirs give eyewitness accounts of weddings, baptisms, Court functions and other events at the Imperial Court between 1894-1917. The last part of the book is devoted to the sad events of the Revolution and the end of the Corps des Pages.
Hardcover and Paperback editions. 258 pages
THE REAL TSARITSA
by Lili Dehn
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Rumour was busy in her lifetime with amazing tales about late Empress Alexandra; how much or little truth lay behind such rumours was known only to her few closest friends, and one of the few was Lili Dehn (1888-1963).
Her study of the Empress’s personality, habits, views, life as she led it, is intimate and illuminating. Lili Dehn was the first person to whom the Empress came with the news of the Tsar’s abdication, and she witnessed his return after that supreme humiliation.
There are dramatic elements in the narrative of the early days of the Revolution; life at Tsarskoye Selo while the Tsar and his family were under arrest; and in the record of the writer’s own imprisonment and adventurous escape.
Paperback and eBook editions. 231 pages
LADIES OF THE RUSSIAN COURT
by Meriel Buchanan
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The daughter of Sir George Buchanan (1854-1924), British Ambassador at St. Petersburg in the First World War, lived among the Russian Imperial Court amid the fading glories of an age now past.
The stories which make up these six portraits—an empress, four grand duchesses and a princess—are drawn from her own memories, stories of women whose lives were lived in the bright light that shines on royalty, many of whom she knew in their everyday existence.
Paperback and eBook editions. 164 pages
LAST DAYS AT TSARSKOE SELO
by Count Paul Benckendorff
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Count Paul Benckendorff (1853-1921), belonged to the closest circle of Emperor Nicholas II. Following the collapse of the monarchy in 1917, Benkendorff and his wife shared the captivity of the Imperial Family at Tsarskoye Selo.
Benkendorff’s narrative provides a detailed eye-witness account of the Tsar’s abdication, his transfer to Tsarskoe Selo and his daily life in the Alexander Palace, where he was held under house arrest from February to August 1917.
Throughout his memoirs, Benckendorff characterizes Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna as courageous, gracious, and poised despite their obvious concern for their family.
Due to his age and poor health, Benckendorff was unable to follow the Emperor and his Imperial Family’s into exile to Tobolsk. One of the very few who were faithful, he parted with his Sovereign for the last time on 14th (O.S. 1st) August 1917.
Paperback and eBook editions. 168 pages + 40 black & white photographs
TSAR NICHOLAS II
by A.G. Elchaninov
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This short biography was originally published in 1913, to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. The author served as a major-general in the Tsar’s suite, and a professor of military art in the General Staff Academy in St. Petersburg.
This new expanded edition features an introduction by independent researcher Paul Gilbert, and two detailed appendices: a chronology of events during the reign of Nicholas II (1894-1917); and 100 facts about Nicholas II and the many reforms he made during his reign.
Paperback and eBook editions. 152 pages
SIX YEARS AT THE RUSSIAN COURT
by Margaretta Eagar
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Born in Ireland, Margaretta Eagar had been selected in 1898 by the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna to take charge of her four daughters. By 1904, she had taken on the roles as nanny, nurse, and friend to the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, all of whom she loved dearly.
This new expanded edition includes two new chapters by the author, both published in 1909, as well as an comprehensive introduction by Romanov historian Charlotte Zeepvat, which includes previously unpublished material, including letters from the State Archives of the Russian Federation.
Paperback edition. 168 pages + 50 black & white photographs
THE LAST DAYS OF THE ROMANOVS
by George Sustav Telberg and Robert Wilton
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Originally published in 1920, this is the complete, shocking story of how, and why, the Soviet secret police massacred Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their five children. Dramatic yet meticulous account by a veteran British journalist and historian, based on the official on-site inquest of Russian investigator Nikolai Sokolov – the most thorough ever conducted at the time. As special correspondent in Russia for The London Times during the years of revolution and civil war, the author writes with authority and rare candour. He forthrightly assigns responsibility for the historic crime.
This highly regarded book considers in detail the downfall of the Russian Imperial family, and the authors have drawn upon depositions and eyewitness testimony of those who were close to these historic events. The narrative follows the Romanovs to their deaths, ordered by Lenin, in a Ekaterinburg cellar, so preventing the Tsar becoming a figure for the White Russians to rally around. An essential and recommended work for any student of the fall of monarchy, Russian involvement in the Great War and the rise of Bolshevism.
Paperback edition. 339 pages
MEMORIES OF THE RUSSIAN COURT
by Anna Taneeva-Vytrubova
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
The court of Emperor Nicholas II, was one of the most glorious courts in the world. Anna Taneeva-Vyrubova, a lady-in-waiting and confident of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, witnessed this first-hand. These memoirs provide an eye-witness account, from her entry in 1905 into the world of pomp and power at the center of the Russian Empire, through the subsequent twelve years that she spent with the Tsar’s family, finally providing captivating insight into the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Anna eventually escaped prison to Finland where she lived out her final days in Helsinki, where she died in 1964.
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MEMORIES OF RUSSIA 1916-1919
by Princess Olga Paley
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865-1929) was the second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (1860-1919). In these memoirs, Princess Paley shares her first-hand account of the times of the Russian Revolution which she experienced painfully. She tells of the last happy days during World War One, the many trials and humiliations her husband and their family were put through, her son’s and her husband’s imprisonment and their ultimate murders by the Bolsheviks. It is also a very interesting insight into the life in Petrogad during the early months of the Russian Revolution.
E-book edition. 265 pages
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