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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

Robert Alexander

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Mar 11, 2014 Linda C rated it really liked it

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94 year old Mikhail Semyonov has laid out a detailed will and set of instructions for his granddaughter upon his death. Then he records the story of his life the month before the murder of the Romanov royal family in 1918, when he was the kitchen boy in the house where they were imprisoned. He claims to really be Leonid "Leonka" Sednyov, 14 at the time and witness to the actual events. He has collected documents over the years that support this and now in 1998 with the end of Communism and the f ...more

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Feb 21, 2015 Vickie rated it it was amazing

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I loved The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar! ♥♥♥♥♥ On the night of July 16, 1918, a crime that was both horrifying and mystifying was committed: Bolshevik revolutionaries murdered the entire Russian royal family in a hail of gunfire. For years it was thought that no one who witnessed this crime survived. There was a young kitchen boy, Leonka, who was mysteriously sent away from the House of a Special Purpose on the night of the murders. Thanks to Robert Alexanderthere is now a witness to r ...more

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