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'Le prisonnier de Tsarskoie-Selo; L'empereur dechu et ses gardiens dans le parc de l'ancien chateau imperial, d'ou il fut dirigé, le 13 aout 1917, sur Tobolsk, en Siberie', 1917. Russian Revolution: 'the Prisoner of Tsarskoye Selo; the deposed emperor (Tsar Nicholas II) and his guardians in the park of the former imperial castle, from where he was taken, on 13 August 1917, to Tobolsk, in Siberia'. (The Russian royal family were held under house arrest in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, before being executed by firing squad at Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].