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Nicholas and Alexandra

2011-11-08 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-11-08
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Book Synopsis Nicholas and Alexandra by : Robert K. Massie

Download or read book Nicholas and Alexandra written by Robert K. Massie. This book was released on 2011-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

A Lifelong Passion

1997 Kings and rulers
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Release : 1997
Genre : Kings and rulers
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Book Synopsis A Lifelong Passion by : Andrei Maylunas

Download or read book A Lifelong Passion written by Andrei Maylunas. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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), and their five children. In all, some 13,000 letters have survived. Those between 1889 and 1914 have never before been published. They run the gamut from matters of state to intimate expressions of love and longing. In addition there are the letters of their four daughters and their only son, the haemophiliac Alexis, whose health was to introduce the crucial and some say malign influence of Rasputin. The editors also draw on Nicholas's diaries, letters to his mother, and the diaries and memoirs of their close contemporaries. It includes first hand accounts of the murder of Rasputin in 1916 and the assassination of the Romanovs at Ekaterinburg in 1918.

The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra

1999-03-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1999-03-30
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Book Synopsis The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra by : Nicholas II (Emperor of Russia)

Download or read book The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra written by Nicholas II (Emperor of Russia). This book was released on 1999-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nicholas and Alexandra exchanged nearly 1,700 letters and telegrams from April 28, 1914 to March 7, 1917. All of the letters and most of the telegrams are in English, with a considerable use (in descending order) of Russian, French and German words, expressions and phrases. ... The letters and telegrams are published here in the order in which they were written. ... The importance of the Nicky-Sunny correspondence is clear. Sir Bernard Pares thought these letters to be the 'most important historical source for the subjects with which they deal, and the main subject of them is the governance of the Russian Empire.'"--Introduction.

Alexandra

2007-04-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Alexandra by : Carolly Erickson

Download or read book Alexandra written by Carolly Erickson. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality. The lives of the Romanovs were full of color and drama, but the personal life of Alexandra has remained enigmatic. Under Erickson's masterful scrutiny the full dimensions of the Empresses' singular psychology are revealed: her childhood bereavement, her long struggle to attain her romantic goal of marriage to Nicholas, the anguish of her pathological shyness, her struggles with her in-laws, her false pregnancy, her increasing eccentricities and loss of self as she became more preoccupied with matters of faith, and her increasing dependence on a series of occult mentors, the most notorious of whom was Rasputin. With meticulous care, long practiced skill, and generous imagination, Erickson crafts a character who lives and breathes.

Nicholas II

1995 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1995
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Nicholas II by : Marc Ferro

Download or read book Nicholas II written by Marc Ferro. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A figure surrounded by myth and speculation, at the center of one of history's most cataclysmic events--the Russian Revolution--Nicholas II remains haunting and enigmatic. Now one of France's most eminent historians presents a biography that goes beyond the lies and half-lies surrounding Nicholas's reign to provide an evocative portrait of this most mysterious ruler. Illustrations.

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