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Nicholas and Alexandra / [by] Robert K. Massie. - New York : Atheneum, 1968. - xvii, 584 p. : illus., geneal. tables. maps (on lining papers), ports. ; 25 cm.

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Contents: 1894: imperial Russia --The tsarevich Nicholas -- Princess Alix -- Marriage -- The coronation -- The new tsar -- Two revolutionaries -- The Kaiser's advice -- 1905 -- The tsar's village -- "OTMA" and Alexis -- A mother's agony -- The royal progress -- "The little one will not die" -- Rasputin -- The holy devil -- "We want a great Russia" -- The Romanov dynasty -- The long summer of 1914 -- For the defense of holy Russia -- Stavka -- "Poor fellows, they are ready to give their lives for a smile" -- The fateful deception -- The government disintegrates -- The prince and the peasant -- Last winter at tsarskoe selo -- Revolution: March 1917 -- Abdication -- The empress alone -- Citizen Romanov -- "His majesty's government does not insist" -- Siberia -- Good Russian men -- Ekaterinburg

An intimate account of the last of the Romanovs and the fall of Imperial Russia


Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia 1868-1918
Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia 1872-1918


Russia--Politics and government--1894-191