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  <title><![CDATA[Nicholas and Alexandra]]></title>
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  <default-description>Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. &quot;A larger than life drama.&quot;--Saturday Review. Photo insert.</default-description>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading &quot;Nicholas and Alexandra&quot; was like watching a train wreck in progress... you knew where it was going, you knew how it had to end, yet you continued to stare, fascinated and horrified, hoping against hope that things might turn out differently, but of course they didn't.  Massie's ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9932398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just starting college and thinking of a history degree with a specialization in Russian history, I picked up Massie's biography of the last of the Romanovs with some interest.  Except for learning something about hemophilia and some dirt about Rasputin, I was very disappointed.  The book might be en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23652811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a turbulant way to end a reign. The story of the last Tsar of Russia is a compelling one, in its grand setting of palaces, luxury, and Revolution. Characters such as the beautiful Tsarina, the sickly and beloved son, Alexis, and the mysterious and mesmerizing monk, Gregory Rasputin, who, it mus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74228161">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Embarrassingly enough this book took me almost two months to read.  In my defense it is over 500 pages of small print.  Despite the fact that it is not a page turner, I just couldn’t bring myself to put it down.  The author truly brought this royal family to life for me.  It was so interesting to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72454987">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great book by Massie – he is my favorite popular historian, I think.  It’s massive, but I couldn’t put it down.  Massie takes, I believe, what could be called a Great Man approach to history, and if a Great Man isn’t around, a Mediocre Man approach.  Nicholas was mediocre as a ruler,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72126237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Massie writes like a novelist, bringing the era of World War I to life in this story of the last tsar of Russia. He tells the story of how Nicholas' love for his wife and her love for their only son, the hemophiliac Alexis, ruined the nation and destroyed the lives of many. Because of his hemophilia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65125040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62844741">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov, and his wife and children. It starts before Nicholas' reign and ends shortly after the murder of the family and their servants in the House of Special Purpose.<br/><br/>This is a long book, but it is a very interesting read. Massie started l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62844741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57624864">
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    <body><![CDATA[A monarchy falls. A revolution begins. A civil war is fought. A wall is built. A couple million die in gulags. And all because two people fell in love. <br/><br/>The couple is, as the title might lead you to speculate, Nicholas and Alexandra. The last of the Romanovs. <br/><br/>Tsar Nicholas II ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57624864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53807829">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an outstanding, highly readable saga of the life of Tsar Nicholas Romanov, his ascendency and ultimately doomed reign in Imperial Russia. He took the throne in 1894 at age 26, after the early death of his father Alexander III. The blood relations to other monarchs is always amazing to read (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53807829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a history buff. In fact, history was always one of my least favorite subjects and the thought of reading a history book was always slightly more appealing than eating spinach.  But then my mother gave me a copy of Robert Massie's Peter the Great and I devoured that book in five days, as tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68850644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43843382">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though I knew a lot about the Romanov tragedy and their reign and I knew what was going to happen, it still wrenched at my heart.  Massie manages to turn the story into a compelling novel.  The biography reads like a novel and doesn't drag as some non-fiction novels tend to do.  He tells you of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43843382">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42101366">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was incredible.  I learned so much that I never knew before about the last Czar and his family, the events leading up to the Revolution, and the Russian Revolution itself.  I had no idea that so much politics were involved, although it should have been obvious.  Rasputin was much more of a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42101366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53573911">
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    <body><![CDATA[For those of you who are not history fans this is probably not the book for you. It took me a while to get through but by the end I felt full of knowledge of a most intriguing story.<br/><br/>Let me start from the beginning. I read We the Living, an Ayn Rand book set in the early part of the Sovie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53573911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fall of the last Tsar of Russia and the beginnings of the Russian revolution make for a dense, fascinating read.  It seems to be difficult to speak of anything Russian without bringing in at least forty or fifty characters, each of whom is indispensable to the story.  In this book, Massie brings...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25370646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19884980">
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    <body><![CDATA[Nacidos para disfrutar del lujo y el bienestar palaciego, Nicolás -cuyos dominios abarcaban la sexta parte de la tierra y acogían a más de ciento veinte millones de seres humanos- y su esposa, la bella y voluntariosa Alejandra, vieron cómo su destino se torcía a causa de la tragedia familiar y ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19884980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17473621">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have lived with the Tsar and Tsarina for months and have at last said goodbye to them, their close knit family, their strong faith in God, and their love story. I have learned to relish history when it is written in a captivating and continually informative and energetic way. This book is that, fu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17473621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12217378">
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    <body><![CDATA[So far I am so interested in this book. I find the Russian history fascinating. It is a culture I have not understood. I find looking at Nicholas's life from a leadership education view point very interesting, because of the lack of training his father gave him. Then the disasters that followed when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12217378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating read, a non-fiction biography which read almost like a novel. It is very empathetic of Nicholas and Alexandra. The book was a bit jumpy, giving a few too many details about outside characters, and discussing some almost out of order. Lenin was introduced early in the book, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41885286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had been highly recommended to me, and I'm so glad I read it. I have to admit I knew very little about Russian history before I read it, and now I'm pretty fascinated by it. Even though it's 500-plus pages, this book reads like a novel. I got so caught up in the intriguing lives of the Rus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42815070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really lets you see what everyday life was like in the palace of Nicholas and Alexandra, and gives great insight into their downfall.  It was obviously meticulously researched, and sometimes very tedious, but still a great book.  It's hard to believe things like this happened such a relati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42643437">more...</a>]]></body>
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