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Author: Helen Rappaport
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2014-03-27
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0230768172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning and critically acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport turns to the tragic story of the daughters of the last Tsar of all the Russias, slaughtered with their parents at Ekaterinburg.
Author: Robert K. Massie
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 0307788474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “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.
Author: Helen Rappaport
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2018-06-26
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1250151236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Helen Rappaport
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0099520095
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Author: Svetlana Ivanova
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-17
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781974510887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot everything that dies stays dead. In the year 2054, the human race suffers the attack of the Other Ones. A global war marks the end of mankind. People are no longer free on earth. The ancient species force the remaining population into slavery.The survivors hide in fear of being captured and killed. Among them is Avery Pierce, a seventeen-year-old girl, who tries to escape her cruel fate. Yet one night they come for her. Captured and sold to a powerful royal house, she lives in a beautiful mansion where she has to serve her mistress. The problem is that there are two of them. Will she be treated as a mere slave or something else?
Author: Svetlana Ivanova
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-10-13
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781978235212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnastasia Romanov is one of the Last Grand Duchesses of the Old Russian Empire. In the post vampire apocalyptic world, she finds herself lost in memories and heartbreak. Unable to forget her former lover, she wanders through one dead city after another, looking for distractions. But then a surprise attack from the Hunters spins her life around. Anastasia is captured by the Hunter Circle where she meets a beautiful huntress, who has an instinct to kill her if she moves the wrong way. At the same time, the world is threatened by the Kaiser's rising power. Hell-bent on a global domination, the German Emperor and his resurrected Nazi army set out to conquer all of Europe. Anastasia has become the only source that will determine the fate of the remaining human race.
Author: Helen Rappaport
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1922586269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA TLS and Prospect Book of the Year From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution — never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all that Belle Epoque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation, such as Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland, sometimes leaving with only the clothes on their backs. Arriving in Paris, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives who could sew worked for the fashion houses, their unique Russian style serving as inspiration for designers such as Coco Chanel. Talented intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers, and writers struggled in exile, eking out a living at menial jobs. Some, like Bunin, Chagall, and Stravinsky, encountered great success in the same Paris that welcomed Americans such as Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Political activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, while double agents plotted espionage and assassination from both sides. Others became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness for Russia, the homeland they had been forced to abandon.
Author: Raegan Baker
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2015-04-29
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781478744979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheir names were Olga, Tatiana and Maria..... For nearly a century the life and death of Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of Russia's last Tsar, has fascinated thousands all over the world. Due to the myth of her survival from a communist firing squad, she has arguably emerged as the most famous member of the Romanov family. However Anastasia had three older sisters: Olga, Tatiana and Maria. They are often overlooked by history. Now for the first time ever, there is a book dedicated to these three young women, all slaughtered before the age of 25. This is the story of three individuals born into a world of glamour and eventually brutally dying in a half cellar far away from the palace rooms they once happily ran through as children and teenagers. This is their story.
Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0375867821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” —The Wall Street Journal Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia's poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing read as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. "An exhilarating narrative history of a doomed and clueless family and empire." —Jim Murphy, author of Newbery Honor Books An American Plague and The Great Fire "For readers who regard history as dull, Fleming’s extraordinary book is proof positive that, on the contrary, it is endlessly fascinating, absorbing as any novel, and the stuff of an altogether memorable reading experience." —Booklist, Starred "Marrying the intimate family portrait of Heiligman’s Charles and Emma with the politics and intrigue of Sheinkin’s Bomb, Fleming has outdone herself with this riveting work of narrative nonfiction that appeals to the imagination as much as the intellect." —The Horn Book, Starred Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction
Author: Helen Azar
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594163227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaria Romanov was canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church for her service as a nurse tending wounded soldiers during World War I. Her diary reveals she felt she was the 'black sheep' of the family despite being known as the most beautiful of the four sisters. Her letters and diaries include intimate details about Rasputin and the royal family as well as the family's concern over the war with Germany and the subsequent rise of the Bolsheviks. She was eighteen-years-old when she was murdered by the Bolsheviks.
