Romanovs

Over the three centuries of the Romanovs on the throne, much has changed in the country - autocratic power remained unchanged. Its carriers played different roles in history, to the best of their strengths, abilities and understanding acting for the good of Russia. Among them were bright personalities, eccentric figures and inconspicuous characters, reformers and conservatives, the quietest, two great, unforgettable, liberator, peacemaker, bloody ... Some paid their lives for his stay on the throne: Ivan VI spent 23 years in prison and was killed at the time An attempt to release him, Peter III and Paul I fell at the hands of the conspirators, Alexander II became a victim of the attempt of terrorists, Nicholas II was shot by decision of the Ural Council.
The book of the Doctor of Historical Sciences Igor Kurukin, who, on the eve of the four hundredth anniversary of the anniversary, gathered all the reigning Romanovs under the same cover, tells about the fate of the dynasty, whose history began in 1613 in