The last tsar : the life and death of Nicholas II / Edvard Radzinsky ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
1992
DK258 .R2813 1992 (Mapit)
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Title
The last tsar : the life and death of Nicholas II / Edvard Radzinsky ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
Author
Radzinskiĭ, Ėdvard.
Uniform Title
Gospodi--spasi i usmiri Rossii͡u. English
Alternate Title
Life and death of Nicholas II.
ISBN
0385423713
9780385423717
0340569956 (HODDER)
9780340569955 (HODDER)
9780385423717
0340569956 (HODDER)
9780340569955 (HODDER)
Publication Details
New York : Doubleday, c1992.
Language
English
Description
462 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DK258 .R2813 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification
947.08/3
Summary
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 would follow. The truth behind these murders has long remained hidden, buried 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 and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days. Included is documentation linking the order of execution directly to Lenin, as well as the suggestion that two family members may have survived the ordeal. Included, too, is the testimony of ordinary Russians who have at last felt free to contribute their own recollections, documents, and handed-down secrets. Radzinsky weaves together scores of firsthand accounts into a brilliant and hauntingly personal narrative that evokes the epic sweep of Tolstoy and the disturbing insights of Dostoevsky. The Last Tsar is an important and momentous work, one that will stand as the definitive account of the terrible last days of one of Europe's greatest dynasties.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Pt. I. Leafing Through the Tsar's Diaries
Prelude: From the Archive of Blood. 1. Diary of the Young Man. 2. Diary of the New Tsar. 3. Dress Rehearsal for the Collapse of His Empire. 4. A Mighty Pair. 5. The Tsar's Family. 6. Diary of the Successful Monarch. 7. A Novel in Letters
Pt. II. The Death of Nicholas and Alexandra. 8. The Fall of Atlantis. 9. The Prisoner's Siberian Diary. 10. Comrades. 11. Secret Mission. 12. The Last House. 13. Flight. 14. Preparations for Murder
Pt. III. The Secret of the Ipatiev Night. 15. The Investigation Begins. 16. My Guest
Epilogue: Participants in the Execution (Fates)
Afterword (New Mysteries?).
Prelude: From the Archive of Blood. 1. Diary of the Young Man. 2. Diary of the New Tsar. 3. Dress Rehearsal for the Collapse of His Empire. 4. A Mighty Pair. 5. The Tsar's Family. 6. Diary of the Successful Monarch. 7. A Novel in Letters
Pt. II. The Death of Nicholas and Alexandra. 8. The Fall of Atlantis. 9. The Prisoner's Siberian Diary. 10. Comrades. 11. Secret Mission. 12. The Last House. 13. Flight. 14. Preparations for Murder
Pt. III. The Secret of the Ipatiev Night. 15. The Investigation Begins. 16. My Guest
Epilogue: Participants in the Execution (Fates)
Afterword (New Mysteries?).