About Pierre Gilliard
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 time with the family. In his memoirs, Gilliard described Tsarina Alexandra's torment over her son's hemophilia and her faith in the ability of starets Grigori Rasputin to heal the boy. Gilliard wrote articles and a book titled The False Anastasia, which claimed she was a "vulgar adventuress" and a "first-rate actress". He became a French professor at the University of Lausanne and was awarded the French Legion of Honor. Like Ernest Louis, Gilliard became a vociferous opponent of Anderson and her circle.
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