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Terenty Ivanovich Chemodurov

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Terenty Ivanovich Chemodurov (1849 – 1919), was a Russian servant.[1] He was the personal butler of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Standing left to right: footman Zhuravski, Terenty Ivanovich Chemodurov, Vasiliev, Petrov, Pierre Gilliard, Charles Sydney Gibbes. Second line: Vladimir Derevenko, Elizaveta Ersberg, Alexandra Tegleva, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, Maria Gustavna Tutelberg, Kolya Derevenko, Alexei Derevenko, Alexandr Derevenko, and Sergei Derevenko; Tsarskoe Selo in 1916.

He served the former Imperial family during their exile in Siberia during the Russian Revolution. Shortly before the execution of the Romanov family, he fell ill and was interned in a prison hospital, where he was forgotten by the Reds (thus escaping execution together with the Romanovs) and then freed by the Whites. He is known as a witness of the imprisonment of the former imperial family.

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  1. ^ King, Greg, Den sista kejsarinnan, Citadel Press Book, 1994. ISBN 0-8065-1761-1.