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When he was young, as was the custom, he had tutors.
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So he had a French tutor who lived with the family for a long time.
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He had Russian and English tutors that came in succession;
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he had drawing masters and so on, to cover the range of education
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thought to be appropriate to a young man of his station.
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His father was a democrat in czarist Russia,
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and he was quite a reformer.
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At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919,
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there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.
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The family left Russia in 1919.
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So, the revolution, I think, starts in 1917.
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And things are quite complex in those early days,