MR. ROMANOFF AND FAMILY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 64, 8 December 1917, Page 10

MR. ROMANOFF AND FAMILY

EX-TSAR IN PRIVATE LIFE. Nicholas Romanoff, the former Emperor of Russia, and his family are now living in a fourteen-room apartment on the second floor of a large qld-fashioned hoti6<J at Tobolsk, Siberia (states a message to the New York "Evening Post" of September 2). Nicholas and the former Empress each have a room; two rooms have been put aside for the four daughters, and one for Alexis, the former heirapparent. The other rooms, except the dining-room, kitchen, reading-room, and so forth, are occupied by the servants. The house is without a garden, and the only way of getting fresh air is from a small balcony. ■The new home of the Romanoffs was not ready when the family arrived, and they were compelled to 6pend two days aboard the small steamer on which they travelled the last fifty miles down the Tobol River. The former Empress and her daughter Olga rode to the house, while the other members of the family walked.

The day of their arrival was a holiday, and fow persons saw the newcomers, except a small crowd that had assembled to watch a priest conduct the usual ceremony of blessing tho house for its new tenants. The guards of the former royal family are mainly cavaliers of the Order of St. George and fusiliers, and the family is virtually under the same mode of life as at Tsarskoe Selo.

Nicholas has asked permission to engage tutors for the childroli. The mother herself will attend to the religious instrnction of the younger ones. It cost the Government 10,000 roubles to move the family to Tobolsk.