By Robert K. Massie
The tale of the affection that ended an empire
In this commanding booklet, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Robert okay. Massie sweeps readers again to the intense global of Imperial Russia to inform the tale of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s courageous fight with hemophilia. opposed to a lavish backdrop of luxurious and intrigue, Massie unfolds a strong drama of ardour and history—the tale of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
Review
“A larger-than-life drama.”—Saturday Review
“A relocating, wealthy booklet . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the final Romanovs focuses now not at the nice occasions . . . yet at the royal relations and their evil nemesis. . . . the story is so weird and wonderful, no melodrama is the same as it.”—Newsweek
“A splendidly wealthy tapestry, the colours clean and transparent, each strand sewn in with a convinced hand. Mr. Massie describes these unusual and poor years with sympathy and figuring out. . . . they arrive vividly earlier than our eyes.”—The big apple Times
“An all-too-human photograph . . . either Nicholas and Alexandra with all their failings come really alive, as does their nearly storybook romance.”—Newsday
“A significant and intimate photograph . . . not just the most characters yet a complete period turn into alive and comprehensible.”—Harper’s
About the Author
Robert ok. Massie was once born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American heritage at Yale and ecu heritage at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes pupil. He was once president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His books contain Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the nice: His existence and global (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize for biography), The Romanovs: the ultimate Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the arrival of the nice battle, Castles of metal: Britain, Germany, and the successful of the good struggle at Sea, and Catherine the nice: Portrait of a Woman.
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EUGENE BOTKIN Court physician. Botkin attended primarily the Empress Alexandra DR. FEDOROV A doctor who cared for the Tsarevich Alexis DR. VLADIMIR DEREVENKO A doctor permanently assigned to the Tsarevich Alexis PIERRE GILLIARD Swiss tutor of the Tsarevich Alexis ANNA VYRUBOVA The Empress Alexandra’s closest friend and confidante DEREVENKO A sailor assigned to watch the Tsarevich Alexis night and day. No relation to Dr. Derevenko MATHILDE KSCHESSINSKA Ballerina. Mistress of Nicholas II before his marriage GREGORY RASPUTIN A Siberian peasant ALEXANDER KERENSKY Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, 1917 VLADIMIR ULYANOV (Lenin) First leader of the Soviet State PART ONE NOTE The titles EMPEROR and TSAR, and EMPRESS and TSARITSA, are all correct and are used interchangeably in this book.
If this is true, it is also true that if there had been no hemophilia, there would have been no Rasputin. This is not to say that everything that happened in Russia stemmed from the illness of a single boy. It is not to overlook the backwardness of Russian society, the clamor for reform, the strain and battering of a world war and the wrong decisions of the last Tsar. All of these powerfully affected events. But then, as if to ensure a terrible ending, Fate introduced hemophilia and Rasputin.
As a girl, Dagmar was engaged to Tsar Alexander Ill’s older brother, Nicholas, then the heir to the Russian throne. When Nicholas died before their marriage, he bequeathed to Alexander not only his title of Tsarevich, but his dark-haired fiancée as well. Before her marriage, Princess Dagmar took the Russian name of Marie Fedorovna. Russians loved this small, gay woman who became their Empress, and Marie gloried in the life of the Russian court. She delighted in parties and balls. “I danced and danced.
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