TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farquhar,Michael
TI  - Secret lives of the tsars: three centuries of autocracy, debauchery, betrayal, murder, and madness from Romanov Russia 
SN  - 0812979052
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House Trade Paperbacks
KW  - Romanov, House of
KW  - Russia
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-349); Introductory chapter: The Time of Troubles and the rise of the Romanovs -- Ivan V and Peter I (1682-1696): one autocrat too many -- Peter I (1696-1725): the eccentricities of an emperor -- Catherine I (1725-1727): the peasant empress -- Anna (1730-1740): "a bored estate mistress" -- Elizabeth (1741-1762): the empress of pretense -- Peter III (1762): "nature made him a mere poltroon" -- Catherine II (1762-1796): "prey to this mad passion!" -- Paul (1796-1801): "he detests his nation" -- Alexander I (1801-1825): Napoleon's conqueror -- Nicholas I (1825-1855): "a condescending Jupiter" -- Alexander II (1855-1881): "a crowned semi-ruin" -- Alexander III (1881-1894): "a colossus of unwavering autocracy" -- Nicholas II (1894-1917): "an absolute child" -- Nicholas II (1894-1917): "gliding down a precipice" -- Nicholas II (1894-1917): a bloody end -- Concluding chapter: Aftermath
N2  - A chronicle of the passions, intrigues, and scandals of the Romanov dynasty includes accounts of such topics as Peter the Great's torture of his own son and Catherine the Great's many young lovers
ER  -