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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 947.0830922
EAN num: 9780316557887
ISBN number: 0316557889
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 230
Printing Date: November 01, 1998
Publishing house: Back Bay Books
Sale Popularity Level: 207989
Studio: Back Bay Books
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This spectacular, illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs--one of the great tragic love stories of all time--with vividness and intimacy. 375 illustrations, 125 in color.
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It's easy now to indulge in nostalgia about the era of the Romanovs, and the sheer lushness of this gorgeous book is enough to encourage the indulgence. Even the text, highly readable and informative, is a little rose-tinted in places, but perhaps the authors can hardly be blamed when the gentlemanly cruelties of the old regime look so innocent subsequent to the quintessentially totalitarian 20th-century hell that replaced them. (Nowhere was the true nature of the new 'people's' dispensation revealed more vividly than in the lurid, incompetent savagery with which Nicholas II and his family were dispatched, a story reconstructed in considerable detail here.) In any case, despite a touch of sentimentality, this is a fine short history of how the Romanov dynasty ended, artfully disguised as a coffee-table book. If you merely flip through the pictures (Ekaterinburg, Tsarkoe Selo, the Cathedral of Peter and Paul at St. Petersburg, shining like a gold dagger in the snow), you will ache to travel to Russia. If you read the text, you will learn a surprising amount about the world of an almost comically ineffectual man with whom the Fates amused themselves by placing him at a key turning point in modern history. Heartless autocrat that he was, you may even end up feeling sorry for him: the cure was so much worse than the disease. --Richard Farr
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Excellent history of that era. I especially enjoyed pictures of that time compared to what that place looks like today.
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If you leave out the info about Anna Anderson, whom DNA tests have now proven was NOT Anastasia, you will find not only a wealth of photos but one of the most concise narratives on the last reign of the Romanov's in print. Definitely a steal at this low price and I have all of the Romanov publications.
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Unfortunately I imagined this book to be much better than what it really is. It is worth having a good look at, but I rather regretted actually buying it.
There are photographs on every page, but don't expect to see a lot of rare ones. One delight was seeing the photographs of the palaces in the day of the Romanovs, compared to photographs of the palaces today. The book is presented nicely, is big and thick, there is a lot of text, but there was truly something missing from this book. It was also even more disappointing to see how much Peter Kurth included on Anna Anderson. Even though DNA tests have proved her to be a fraud, it seems that Peter Kurth points out every little thing which would try to make the reader believe that Anna Anderson was indeed Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna.
It is perhaps a nice book, but I say that there are definitely better books on the Imperial Family out there.
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If you are looking for a good book about Tsar Nicholas II, look no further. This was an absolutely amazing book. I have Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, and it alone comes close to this one in telling the Romanov's story. It is very well written, does not bog the reader down with more information than is needed to tell the story. And the photographs are astonishing! Most of them apparently had not been published before this book. Peter Kurth is an excellent writer (I have his other book "The Riddle of Anna Anderson" and he captures the reader's interest right from the very first paragraph. This is an excellent book about this tragic family.
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This book contains absolutely beautiful photographs of Tsar Nicholas and his family. Although it is not in hardcover, it makes a wonderful coffee table book. It is the best book I have found containing photographs of that era in Russian history. It makes a great gift.
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