2009, ISBN: 0312379765

[EAN: 9780312379766], [PU: St Martins Press], UNITED STATES, On the sweltering summer night of July 16, 1918, in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg, a group of assassins led an unsuspectin… Plus…

[EAN: 9780312379766], [PU: St Martins Press], UNITED STATES, On the sweltering summer night of July 16, 1918, in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg, a group of assassins led an unsuspecting Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra, the desperately ill Tsarevich, and their four beautiful daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, into a basement room where they were shot and then bayoneted to death.This is the story of those murders, which ended three hundred years of Romanov rule and set their stamp on an era of state-orchestrated terror and brutal repression.The Last Days of the Romanovs counts down to the last, tense hours of the familys lives, stripping away the over-romanticized versions of previous accounts. The story focuses on the family inside the Ipatiev House, capturing the oppressive atmosphere and the dynamics of a group-the Romanovs, their servants, and guards-thrown together by extraordinary events.Marshaling overlooked evidence from key witnesses such as the British consul to Ekaterinburg, Sir Thomas Preston, American and British travelers in Siberia, and the now-forgotten American journalist Herman Bernstein, Helen Rappaport gives a brilliant account of the political forces swirling through the remote Urals town. She conveys the tension of the watching world: the Kaiser of Germany and George V, King of England-both, like Alexandra, grandchildren of Queen Victoria-their nations locked in combat as the First World War drew to its bitter end. And she draws on recent releases from the Russian archives to challenge the view that the deaths were a unilateral act by a maverick group of the Ekaterinburg Bolsheviks, identifying a chain of command that stretches directly, she believes, to Moscow-and to Lenin himself.Telling the story in a compellingly new and dramatic way, The Last Days of the Romanovs brings those final tragic days vividly alive against the backdrop of Russia in turmoil, on the brink of a devastating civil war., Books<

ISBN: 9780312379766

The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family was both a human tragedy anda turning point in world history. This work gives a riveting moment by momentaccount of the last 13 days of th… Plus…

The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family was both a human tragedy anda turning point in world history. This work gives a riveting moment by momentaccount of the last 13 days of their lives. b&w photo insert. Media > Book, [PU: St Martin's Press]<