The Last Tsar. The Life and Death of Nicholas II
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The execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family at the hands of revolutionaries in 1918 is one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, an event that brought the three-hundred-year rule of the house of Romanov to a brutal and tragic end and SET THE TONE For The Stalinist Atrocities that Woold Follow. The Truth Behind these Murders Has Long Remained Hidden, Burved Under More than Seventy Years of Myth, Legend, and Speculation. Now, in a sensational biography that could not have been written before glasnost, noted Russian playwright and historian Edvard Radzinsky unearths solutions to many of the questions that have remained unanswered since the terrible events in Ekaterinburg on the night of July 16-17, 1918. Mining Sources Long Unavailable-Including Firsthand Accounts of the Slaying-He Creates Both a Fascinating Portrait of the Monarchy-Minute of HIS TerRiff Last DAYNT OFA HIS HIS HIS. Included Is Documentation Linking the Order of Execution Directly to Lenin, As Well as the Suggestion that Two Family Mambers May Have Survved the Oredeal. Included, too, is the Testimony of Ordinary russians Who has at Last Fee Free to Contribute Their Own Recollements, Documents, and Handed-Down Secrets. Radzinsky Weaves Together Scores of Fircounts Into a Brilliant and Hauntingly Personal Narrative that Epic Sweep of Tolstoy and the Disturbing Insightsk. The Last Tsar Is An Important and Momentous Work, One That Will Stand as The Definitive Account of the Terright Days of Europe Greatest Dynasties
Author:
Author:Radzinsky Edward Stanislavovich
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
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- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Gazeta
ISBN:
ISBN:9780385469623
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