A collection of 2,000 letters, postcards and photographs sent by the last Russian tsar's siblings to their private tutor was sold at an auction in Geneva for some $390,000, the Nasha Gazeta paper said on Tuesday.
This is the most substantial collection of Romanov family letters ever put up for auction, according to the paper.
The final price the letters were sold for exceeded the initial assessment fivefold, chief auctioneer Bernard Piguet said.
"We are very satisfied with the results. They prove that the essence of the Romanovs, and interest in this family...is still alive," Piguet said.
Descendants of the Romanov family did not take part in the auction.
Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, their four daughters and son, and several servants, were shot dead by the Bolsheviks in a basement in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of July 17, 1918.
The Romanovs were canonized in 2000, and are buried in St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Cathedral.
PARIS, December 7 (RIA Novosti)
