...Tsar, the Crown Prince Alexei and the boy's tutor walking an elephant near their palace in Tsarskoye Selo in 1914. The event is recalled in the Tsar's journal: "Took the elephant to our pond with Alexei today and had fun watching him bath."   The zoo on the estate was closed after the 1917...

      Derevenko, Alexei, Nicholas, nanny (forgot her name. help?), Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Tsarskoe Selo, 1907 (?).