The last days of the Romanovs : tragedy at Ekaterinburg
(2009)
By:
Rappaport, Helen
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
947.083/RAPPAPORT,H
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2009.]
DESCRIPTION
xii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780312603472, 0312603479, 9780312379766, 0312379765, 0312603479, 9780312603472
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A brilliant account of the political forces swirling through the remote Urals town of Ekaterinburg at the bitter end of the First World War. Challenges the view that the deaths of the Romanovs were a unilateral act by a maverick group of Bolsheviks, and identifies a chain of command that stretches to Moscow-- and to Lenin himself
CONTENTS
Introduction: The Red Urals --
Behind the palisade --
"The dark gentleman" --
Man with a cigarette --
Woman in a wheelchair --
Girls in white dresses --
Boy in the sailor suit --
Good doctor --
"Our poor Russia" --
"Everything is the same" --
"What is to be done with Nicholas?" --
"Absolutely no news from outside" --
"Something has happened to them in there" --
"Ordinary people like us" --
House of special purpose --
"The will of the revolution" --
"The world will never know what we did to them" --
Epilogue: the scent of lilies