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Alix and Nicky

Virginia Rounding
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Author : Virginia Rounding
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429940900

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The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them. There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his wife the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. On one hand, they are venerated as saints, innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins, and on the other they are impugned as the unwitting harbingers of revolution and imperial collapse, blamed for all the ills that befell the Russian people in the 20th century. Theirs was also a tragic love story; for whatever else can be said of them, there can be no doubt that Alix and Nicky adored one another. Soon after their engagement, Alix wrote in her fiancé's diary: "Ever true and ever loving, faithful, pure and strong as death"—words which met their fulfillment twenty-four years later in a blood-spattered cellar in Ekaterinburg. Through the letters and diaries written by the couple and by those around them, Virginia Rounding presents an intimate, penetrating, and fresh portrayal of these two complex figures and of their passion—their love and their suffering. She explores the nature and possible causes of the Empress's ill health, and examines in depth the enigmatic triangular relationship between Nicky, Alix and their ‘favourite,' Ania Vyrubova, protégée of the infamous Rasputin, extracting the meaning from words left unsaid, from hints and innuendoes.. The story of Alix and Nicky, of their four daughters known collectively as ‘OTMA' and of their hemophiliac little boy Alexei, is endlessly fascinating, and Rounding makes these characters come alive, presenting them in all their human dimensions and expertly leading the reader into their vanished world.

Memoirs of Nicky and Alix

Nicholas Romanov,Alexandra Romanov
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Author : Nicholas Romanov,Alexandra Romanov
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534667946

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DISCOVER: THE DIARY OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA There are not many couples in history whose views could reflect the zeitgeist of their time. Included in this rare category of people are the Romanovs, who had been through a lot of hardship but preserved their profound feelings for each other till the end of their lives. As they witnessed incredible events, Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna managed to depict their thoughts and emotional experiences, and those became a most interesting source of knowledge about the epochal events of the turn of the 20th century. This edition is a unique compilation of letters and diary entries that provides readers with a rare opportunity to see the same events from two different points of view. As you turn over the pages of this book, you will be amazed to discover facets of "masculine" and "feminine" perceptions of life and surprised at their unexpected similarities and paradoxical differences

Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert K. Massie
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Author : Robert K. Massie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307788474

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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie Pdf

A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek In this commanding book, New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of the Russian empire to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

Alexandra

Carolly Erickson
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Author : Carolly Erickson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429904025

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Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality. The lives of the Romanovs were full of color and drama, but the personal life of Alexandra has remained enigmatic. Under Erickson's masterful scrutiny the full dimensions of the Empresses' singular psychology are revealed: her childhood bereavement, her long struggle to attain her romantic goal of marriage to Nicholas, the anguish of her pathological shyness, her struggles with her in-laws, her false pregnancy, her increasing eccentricities and loss of self as she became more preoccupied with matters of faith, and her increasing dependence on a series of occult mentors, the most notorious of whom was Rasputin. With meticulous care, long practiced skill, and generous imagination, Erickson crafts a character who lives and breathes.

A Lifelong Passion

Nicholas II (Emperor of Russia),Andrei Maylunas,S. V. Mironenko
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Author : Nicholas II (Emperor of Russia),Andrei Maylunas,S. V. Mironenko
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822023575327

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A Lifelong Passion by Nicholas II (Emperor of Russia),Andrei Maylunas,S. V. Mironenko Pdf

These letters, most of which are published here for the first time, offer an intimate look at some of the most momentous events of the early 1900s, including Russia's participation in World War I and the fall of the Romanov dynasty in the Bolshevik revolution. Among the correspondents are Alexandra's beloved but domineering grandmother, Queen Victoria of England, and Nicholas' cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Most poignant, though, are the letters and diaries of the last Tsar and Tsarina, which stand as eloquent expressions of one of the great love affairs of this century. "A Lifelong Passion begins in 1884 with the couple's first childhood meeting and chronicles their intense courtship and first joyful years of marriage. The Romanovs' happiness was not to last, however, as they were quickly overtaken by the forces of war and revolution. The discovery that their only son and heir Alexei was stricken with hemophilia opened the family to the formidable and perhaps malign influence of the monk Rasputin, whose gory death at the hands of two Grand Dukes is here recounted by one of the murderers. Though unshaken in their love for one another, Nicholas and Alexandra could not hold their country together, and their story ends with a chilling account of their assassination by the Bolshevik revolutionaries.

The Romanovs

Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307266521

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"The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries."--NoveList.

The Last Tsar

Edvard Radzinsky
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Author : Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307754622

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Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm

Miranda Carter
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Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400079124

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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter Pdf

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. Through brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives, their foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of Europe’s early twentieth-century aristocracy, a solipsistic world preposterously out of kilter with its times.

Imperial Requiem

Justin C. Vovk
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Author : Justin C. Vovk
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938908606

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Augusta Victoria, Mary, Alexandra, and Zita were four women who were born to rule. In Imperial Requiem, Justin C. Vovk narrates the epic story of four women who were married to the reigning monarchs of Europe's last empires during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, letters, diary entries, and interviews with descendants, Vovk provides an in-depth look into the lives of four extraordinary women who stayed faithfully at their husbands' sides throughout the cataclysm of the First World War and the tumultuous years that followed. At the centers of these four great monarchies were Augusta Victoria, Germany's revered empress whose unwavering commitment to her bombastic husband made her a national icon; Mary, whose Cinderella story and immense personal strength made her the soul of the British monarchy through some of its greatest crises; Alexandra, the ill-fated tsarina who helped topple the Russian monarchy through her ineffective rule; and Zita, the resolute empress of Austria whose story of loss and exile captivated the world's attention for seven decades. Imperial Requiem shares the fascinating story of four princesses who married for love, graced imperial thrones, and watched as their beloved worlds were torn apart by war, revolution, heartache, and loss.

Alexandra: The Last Tsarina

Carolly Erickson
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Author : Carolly Erickson
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781472107978

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The lives and deaths of the Romanov family are redolent with colour and drama, but the personal life of the beautiful Tsarina Alexandra has remained enigmatic. Under Erickson's masterful scrutiny the full dimensions of the Empress's singular psychology are revealed: her childhood bereavement, her long struggle to attain her romantic goal of marriage to her handsome cousin Nicholas, anguishing shyness, the struggles with her in-laws, a false pregnancy, her increasing eccentricities as she became more preoccupied with matters of faith, and her growing dependence on a series of occult mentors, the most notorious of whom was Rasputin. With meticulous care, long-practised skill, and generous imagination, Erickson has brought Alexandra and her family back to life. Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality.

The Funeral Bride

Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
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Author : Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1519238010

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Once upon a time there was a handsome sixteen-year-old prince who was the heir to one sixth of the world and to the largest private fortune on earth. Once there was a beautiful golden-haired princess who came from a small German duchy. They met and their love forever changed the course of history. This is their story, told in Alexandra's voice, the tale of Nicholas Romanov and Alexandra of Hesse, who became her Imperial Highness Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, the last Empress of Russia. Long before the tragedy there was the romance, the one-of-a-kind fairytale story of two beautiful young people who met, loved, and were given everything that money could buy, combined with nearly limitless earthly power. They must have lived happily ever after. Didn't they ...? Part II: 'The Empress of Tears, ' covering the years 1895-1904, will be published in the early summer of 2016.

The Last Tsar

Larisa I͡Akovlevna Ermilova
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Author : Larisa I͡Akovlevna Ermilova
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022399039

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This is a major pictorial work about the Romanov dynasty, the supreme rulers of Russia for over 300 years, with special emphasis on the life of Nicholas II, the last Tsar. Moreover, it is an unsurpassed photographic record of the lives of the last reigning members of the Russian Royal family. The great majority of the photographs used in this book have never been published before, and have rarely been seen even by researchers from the West, having remained hidden in the archives for 70 years, since the Russian revolution. The many contemporary photographs depict Russian royalty in ceremonial dress and at leisure in informal surroundings. There are also such unique items as Rasputin, (the mad monk) and confidant of the Tsarina, Alexandra, pictured surrounded by female admirers.

The Race to Save the Romanovs

Helen Rappaport
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Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250151230

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The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport Pdf

In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family was commemorated in 2018 by a huge ceremony attended by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. While the murders themselves have received major attention, what has never been investigated in detail are the various plots and plans behind the scenes to save the family—on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. Rappaport refutes the claim that the fault lies entirely with King George V, as has been the traditional view for the last century. The responsibility for failing the Romanovs must be equally shared. The question of asylum for the Tsar and his family was an extremely complicated issue that presented enormous political, logistical and geographical challenges at a time when Europe was still at war. Like a modern day detective, Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the US, Russia, Spain and the UK, creating a powerful account of near misses and close calls with a heartbreaking conclusion. With its up-to-the-minute research, The Race to Save the Romanovs is sure to replace outdated classics as the final word on the fate of the Romanovs.

From Splendor to Revolution

Julia P. Gelardi
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Author : Julia P. Gelardi
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429990943

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This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the chaos of revolution and the beginnings of the Soviet Union. At the center of all this tumult were four women of the Romanov dynasty. Marie Alexandrovna and Olga Constantinovna were born into the family, Russian Grand Duchesses at birth. Marie Feodorovna and Marie Pavlovna married into the dynasty, the former born a Princess of Denmark, the latter a Duchess of the German duchy of Mecklendburg-Schwerin. In From Splendor to Revolution, we watch these pampered aristocratic women fight for their lives as the cataclysm of war engulfs them. In a matter of a few short years, they fell from the pinnacle of wealth and power to the depths of danger, poverty, and exile. It is an unforgettable epic story.

The Fate of the Romanovs

Greg King,Penny Wilson
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Author : Greg King,Penny Wilson
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470305775

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The Fate of the Romanovs by Greg King,Penny Wilson Pdf

Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden wealth of archival documents relating to the imprisonment and eventual murder of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children. Emanating from sources both within and close to the Imperial Family as well as from their captors and executioners, these often-controversial materials have enabled a new and comprehensive examination of one the pivotal events of the twentieth century and the many controversies that surround it. Based on a careful analysis of more than 500 of these previously unpublished documents, along with numerous newly discovered photos, The Fate of the Romanovs makes compelling revisions to many long-held beliefs about the Romanovs' final months and moments. This powerful account includes: * Surprising evidence that Anastasia may, indeed, have survived * Diary entries made by Nicholas and Alexandra during their captivity * Revelations of how the Romanovs were betrayed by trusted servants * A reconstruction of daily life among the prisoners at Ipatiev House * Strong evidence that the Romanovs were not brutalized by their captors * Statements from admitted participants in the murders