Tsar Nicholas II was a man both unprepared and ill equipped to head the Russian empire, and under the influence of Alexandra Feodorovna, the painfully shy wife he so adored, he lead the country to disaster. This book tells the story of the couple's romance up to their abduction and death in 1918.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Höhe: 308 mm
Breite: 240 mm
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978-1-85043-494-8 (9781850434948)
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Preface by B.1 Kaptelov, Director of CSAOR archives, Moscow INTRODUCTION The Family Albums. ONE 1896-1903 Marriage and Anointment as Tsar. TWO 1904-1907 Four Daughters and a Son. THREE 1908-1909 Rasputin's Influence. FOUR 1910 Family Life and Foreign Visitors. FIVE 1911 The Grand Duchesses Become Women. SIX 1912 High Days and Holidays. SEVEN l913 Privacy and Protection of the Tsarevich. EIGHT 1914 A Life Remote from Empire. NINE 1915-1916 Affairs of State and War. TEN 1917 Under House Arrest. Extract from 'Original Protocol of Execution' of the Romanov family. Index.
