Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/NICHOLAS II
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxv, 368 pages
ISBN/ISSN
9780312381004, 031238100X, 031238100X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Dramatis personae -- Family tree -- Setting the scene : the Romanov tercentenary -- The empress's illness, and her friend Ania -- Mystical circles, and the struggle to produce an heir -- Autocracy in crisis -- Beginnings -- After the coronation -- Family matters -- Grigory the wonder-worker -- Upsets at home, and the beginning of war -- The great fight -- From command to abdication -- From "ex's" to icons