 Pierre Gilliard

Pierre Gilliard (16 May 1879 – 30 May 1962) 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 time with the family.