Nicholas and Alexandra
New York : Ballantine Books, 2000.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First Ballantine edition.
Description: 613 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
More than a quarter of a century after it was first published in hardcover comes a never-before-issued trade paperback edition of the classic Nicholas and Alexandra. Featuring a new introduction by its Pulitzer Prize -- winning author, this powerful work sweeps us back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs' lives: Nicholas's political naivete, Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis's brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Robert K. Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history -- the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
Contents:
1894: Imperial Russia -- Tsarevich Nicholas -- Princess Alix -- Marriage -- Coronation -- New Tsar -- Two revolutionaries -- Kaiser's advice -- 1905 -- Tsar's village -- "OTMA" and Alexis -- Mother's agony -- Royal progress -- "Little one will not die" -- Rasputin -- Holy devil -- "We want a great Russia" -- Romanov dynasty -- Long summer of 1914 -- For the defense of Holy Russia -- Stavka -- "Poor fellows, they are ready to give their lives for a smile" -- Fateful deception -- Government disintegrates -- Prince and the peasant -- Last winter at Tsarskoe selo -- Revolution: March 1917 -- Abdication -- Empress alone -- Citizen Romanov -- "His Majesty's government does not insist" -- Siberia -- Good Russian men -- Ekaterinburg -- Epilogue -- Genealogy of Nicholas and Alexandra -- Acknowledgments.
Subjects:
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918.
Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918.
Russia -- History -- 1801-1917.
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918.
Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918.
Russia -- History -- 1801-1917.
ISBN:
9780307788474
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [589]-594) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [589]-594) and index.
Description based on print version record.