Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic (died 1962)

Pierre Gilliard

Swiss tutor to the Russian imperial family (1879–1962)

Pierre Gilliard was a Swiss academic and author, best known as the French language tutor to the five children of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia from 1905 to 1918. In 1921, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he published a memoir, Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, about his…