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.
When World War I broke out in 1914 Russia's Romanov dynasty was among the world's richest families. Yet ever since the Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children at Ekaterinburg, the mystery of what happened to their wealth has remained unsolved - until now. The author has spent 30 years on the trail of the Tsar's ...
The most dramatic unsolved mystery of the century. In July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and their five children were shot by Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. In February 1920, a woman who many believe was the Grand Duchess Anastasia was rescued from a canal in Berlin. In July 1992, the body of Anastasia, the youngest grand duchess, ...
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a grave in Siberia, a few miles from where the last Tsar of Russia and his family were murdered 73 years before. Were these the Romanovs? This book aims to provide the answer, returning to the horrifying moments of slaughter, revealing the guilt and cover-ups by Lenin, then describing in graphic ...
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 ...
Vasily Filatov, a village teacher who lived under the harsh control of the Soviet Union, professed to have had knowledge of the private life of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, and of details surrounding their massacre in 1918, following the Russian Revolution. In the 1980s, when Soviet archives were opened to the public during perestroika, they ...
In the darkest days of the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, when all talk of the Romanovs was punishable at the very least by banishment to Serbia, a group of archivists were exempt. They sorted and filed the thousands of letters and photographs of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria), ...
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 ...
Buried for 70 years in the Russian State Archive in Moscow, this collection finally tells, in their own words, the story of the great love and tumultuous lives of the last tsar and tsarina of Russia. 16-page, full-color insert, 2 photos, maps & family trees.
It is one of the greatest riddles of all time: Did Anastasia, youngest daughter of the last Russian Czar, survive the massacre of the royal family in 1917? James Blair Lovell's painstaking research proves, beyond a doubt, that Anna Anderson--who claimed until her death in 1984 she was Anastasia--indeed was. "Reads like a detective novel".- ...
This magnificent, compelling volume reveals in unparalleled detail the luxurious world and private lives of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children. It accompanies the largest collection of Imperial family treasures ever to leave Russia, on exhibit through Dec. 31, 1998, at the First USA Riverfront Arts ...
The last Tsaritsa of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, was murdered with her family on the night of 16-17 July 1918 by agents acting on behalf of the revolutionary Bolshevik government. The story of the demise of the Romanov dynasty has been recounted many times. This book - the recently declassified 1918 diary of Alexandra - aims to provide something ...
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 ...
Based on the animated motion picture of the same name, this lavishly illustrated read-aloud version of "Anastasia" tells the story of a Russian orphan girl who discovers that she has been a princess all along. Full color.
In the early 1900s, some years after the Russian Revolution, the royal family's youngest daughter, Anastasia, now called "Anya," is seen leaving an orphanage. She cannot remember the early years of her life, but she has always worn a mysterious key around her neck with a message on it about Paris. The young woman believes she can uncover her past ...
This biography of Russia's last Tsarina tells of her romance with Nicholas, her efforts to bear a male heir, the sometimes cruel and competitive intrigues of the court, and her demise during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Biographer Erickson paints a generally flattering picture.
A full-color illustrated retelling of "Anastasia" in our best-selling paperback format. Anastasia Romanov, a Russian princess, lives in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. But all of this changes during the revolution. Poor Anastasia is left an orphan, with no clue as to her origins other than the mysterious key she has always ...
Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, this biography of Alexandra, the last tsarina, explores: her childhood bereavement; her long struggle to attain her romantic goal of marriage to Nicholas; anguishing pathological shyness; the struggles with her in-laws; a false pregnancy; her increasing eccentricities as ...
This text is a scholarly, comprehensive and critical biography of Nicholas II from his birth in 1868 to his execution in 1918. It features a chronological narrative emphasizing the political aspects of the Tsar's reign rather than details from his personal life - although new information about his life is revealed. Nicholas II is portrayed as a ...
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