What really happened on the night of July 16, 1918, when the Romanovs, the Russian Imperial family, was assassinated? Can it now be established that it was Nicholas's son, Alexei, and youngest daughter, Anastasia, who were missing when the mass grave was excavated in Ekaterinburg? In "The Quest for Anastasia", Dr. John Klier attempts to clear the ...
Three major waves of anti-Jewish rioting swept southern Russia and Russian Poland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, distinguished scholars of Russian Jewish history explore the origins and nature of these pogroms, which were among the most extensive outbreaks of antisemitic violence before the Holocaust. Using new ...
The reform era in Russia (1855-1881) witnessed the emancipation of the serfs, economic and social change, the reform of all imperial institutions, and the growth of national identity among Russians and the Empire's expanding Jewish population. Consequently, the 'Jewish Question' became one of most hotly debated topics in Russia. Attitudes toward ...
On February 12, 1994, Anna Anderson, a woman in her eighties, died in Charlottesville, Virginia. Was she the youngest daughter of the last Tsar, or a former Polish factory worker who, miraculously, had intimate knowledge of the royal family's activities?
The fate of Anastasia and that of the Russian Imperial family is still shrouded in mystery, even after the announcement in 1993 of the discovery of their remains in a pit near Ekaterinburg, Eastern Russia. The many reports out of Russia concur that two of the royal children were missing from the grave, but they do not agree on their identity. John ...
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