![]() ![]() They come vividly before our eyes.” - The New York Times Massie describes those strange and terrible years with sympathy and understanding. “A wonderfully rich tapestry, the colors fresh and clear, every strand sewn in with a sure hand. The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.” - Newsweek but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events. “A larger-than-life drama.” - Saturday Review 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.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia 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. In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. The story of the love that ended an empire ![]()
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