The last days of the Romanovs : tragedy at Ekaterinburg /
Rappaport, Helen.
The last days of the Romanovs : tragedy at Ekaterinburg / Helen Rappaport. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009. - xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-242) and index.
Introduction: The Red Urals -- Behind the palisade -- "The dark gentleman" -- The man with a cigarette -- The woman in a wheelchair -- Girls in white dresses -- The boy in the sailor suit -- The 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" -- The house of special purpose -- "The will of the revolution" -- "The world will never know what we did to them" -- Epilogue: the scent of lilies.
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.
0312379765 9780312379766
2008038733
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 --Assassination.
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 --Family.
Emperors--Russia--Biography.
Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
The last days of the Romanovs : tragedy at Ekaterinburg / Helen Rappaport. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009. - xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-242) and index.
Introduction: The Red Urals -- Behind the palisade -- "The dark gentleman" -- The man with a cigarette -- The woman in a wheelchair -- Girls in white dresses -- The boy in the sailor suit -- The 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" -- The house of special purpose -- "The will of the revolution" -- "The world will never know what we did to them" -- Epilogue: the scent of lilies.
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.
0312379765 9780312379766
2008038733
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 --Assassination.
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 --Family.
Emperors--Russia--Biography.
Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917.