When he was young, as was the custom, he had tutors.

他年轻时根据当时的风俗聘请了家庭教师
So he had a French tutor who lived with the family for a long time.

他的法语教师在他家住了很长时间
He had Russian and English tutors that came in succession;

后来还有俄文老师和英语老师
he had drawing masters and so on, to cover the range of education

他还聘请了绘画老师等等他接受了一切
thought to be appropriate to a young man of his station.

被认为符合他身份地位的教育
His father was a democrat in czarist Russia,

他父亲在沙皇俄国是一名民主党人
and he was quite a reformer.

他是一个彻底的改革家
At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919,

当布尔什维克党在1919年掌权时
there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他们家很快就离开了俄国
The family left Russia in 1919.

整个家庭在1919年离开了俄国
So, the revolution, I think, starts in 1917.

我认为这场革命开始于1917年
And things are quite complex in those early days,

早期的情况异常复杂