75 years after the execution of the last Tsar and his family, interest in them is still strong. The recent DNA identifications of their bones made worldwide headlines, as did the fact that the remains of two of the children, Alexeia and either Anastasia or Maria, are missing. From formerly secret archives in Russia have come a host of documents ...
Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual exploits of a royal Don Juan, yet fell profoundly in love. He ruled during the "Russian ...
Last summer this critically acclaimed bestseller garnered media attention that resulted in sales of more than 100,000 copies in hardcover. Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available--including the tsar's diaries from the age of 14--to create a fascinating portrait of Nicholas II. Photos.
Returning to the court of Nicholas II, the author of the bestselling "The Last Tsar" explores the mystery of Rasputin, one of the most fascinating and controversial persons of the 20th century. 30 photos.
Edvard Radzinsky, author of "The Last Tsar", is "a gripping storyteller (who) does not disappoint here" ("The New York Times Book Review"). Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. photo insert.
es the most remarkable book yet to emerge from the fall of the Soviet Union: an utterly original portrait of Joseph Stalin that reads like a mystery novel and brims with headline-making revelations gathered from an astounding array of entirely new sources. 50 photos.
The execution of Nicholas II at the hands of revolutionaries in 1918 is one of the pivotal events of the 20th century, an event that shaped modern Russia. Now comes the long awaited work that unravels the 70-year-old mystery of the final days and death of the last of the Russian tsars, based on new evidence and documents long unavailable. 50 ...
This critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller tells the compelling true story of the last days of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, based on letters and diary entries.
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, Russian peasant, monk and mystic, exercised extraordinary and malign power over the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia and their haemophiliac son. His drunkenness, sexual excesses and nepotism - not to mention rumours that he was a German agent - led to his murder by a group of noblemen in December 1916. Mad monk or mystic ...
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, Russian peasant, monk and mystic, exercised extraordinary and malign power over the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia and their haemophiliac son. His drunkenness, sexual excesses and nepotism - and rumours he was a German agent - finally led to his murder by a group of noblemen in December 1916. Variously regarded as mad ...
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