false <![CDATA[The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255735879m/4769909.jpg 4769909 4 <DIV><P><I>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.</I></P><P> </P><P>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.</P><P>            <I>The Last Days of the Romanovs</I> counts down to the last, tense hours of the family’s 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. </P><P>            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.</P><P>            Telling the story in a compellingly new and dramatic way, <I>The Last Days of the Romanovs</I> brings those final tragic days vividly alive against the backdrop of Russia in turmoil, on the brink of a devastating civil war.</P></DIV> 4834724 2008 The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg total:71|5:8|4:25|3:24|2:10|1:4| 71 236 246 32 4 0 false false Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 18:01:22 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 20:42:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:40:54 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 13:21:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 11:44:57 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 20:03:35 -0700 2009 The Last Days of the Romanovs in the late evening—of course I couldn’t put the book down—and let me say that the terrible gruesomeness recounted in those final chapters does not make for restful sleep afterwards. Gory? Absolutely. Sickening? In...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 18:31:02 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 17:10:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 10:46:59 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 10:37:02 -0700 2009 Updated 3/6/09:
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3 1/2 stars - Non-fiction

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