I found this old biography my great grandmother wrote about her friend, Boris Laiming. It starts in his childhood growing up in the palace in Moscow, and documents his life through the revolution and eventually his escape from russia. I just wanted to throw this out there in case anyone is doing research in this topic, I would be happy to share. The sections of the book are detailed first person accounts, and the sections are as follows: early childhood, move to moscow, life in Kremlin palaces, suburban life in illnskoe, marriage of grand dutchess Marie, fall of 1908: return to st. Petersberg, summer in great palace at tsarskoe solo, imperial Alexander lyceum, grand Duke Dimitri comes of age, lyceum centinela, and meeting tsar, life in provincial estates, Larin "the american explorer", illinskoe in wartime, political view clash, world war 1 begins, uncle nikousha, fire department, rasputin, natasha and udino estate, rasputin assassination, revolution 1917, Tsar abdicates, in military service, kerensky government in trouble, captured by communists in winter palace, employed by russian multimillionaire antolin, accompanied batolin to far east.

If anyone is interested in the contents, I'll happily share the document.