Nicholas s political naivete, alexandra s obsession with the corrupt mystic rasputin, and little alexiss brave struggle with hemophilia. Robert massie, who popularized russian history, dead at 90. With their four daughters including anastasia and only son, a hemophiliac, nicholas and his reclusive wife, alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as world war i raged outside their door and political unrest grew. The papers are comprised of robert massie s original typescript with revisions, setting typescript with additional corrections and editing, galley proofs with corrections, and page proofs with corrections for his book nicholas and alexandra. Nicholas ii and the russian revolution robert service.
D nicholas and alexandra the classic account of the fall of. Massie was born in lexington, kentucky, and studied american history at yale and european history at oxford, which he attended as a rhodes scholar. Featuring a new introduction by its pulitzer prize winning author, this powerful work sweeps us back to the extraordinary world of imperial russia to tell the story of the. Read on your ereader, tablet, mobile, mac or desktop pc. Massie was inspired to write the book after his own son was diagnosed with hemophilia, which tsarevich alexei had suffered.
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He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about the house of romanov, russias imperial family from 16 to 1917. An intimate account of the last of the romanovs and the fall of imperial russia is a 1967 biography of the last royal family of russia by historian robert k. Portrait of a woman kindle edition by massie, robert k. The story of nicholass political naivete, alexandras obsession with the corrupt mystic rasputin, and little alexiss brave. Nicholas and alexandra toronto public library overdrive. Publication date 1985 topics nicholas ii, emperor of russia. His books include nicholas and alexandra, peter the great. Buy nicholas and alexandra new edition by massie, robert k. Nicholas and alexandra pima county public library overdrive. In this commanding book, pulitzer prizewinning author robert k. Feb 29, 2000 the story of the love that ended an empire in this commanding book, pulitzer prizewinning author robert k. Massie free how to finder mobile no registration how read ereader ebay. The classic account of the fall of the romanov dynasty ebook written by robert k. When nicholas fell in love with alix of hesse, granddaughter of queen victoria, he, set in motion events which resulted in the end of romanov rule.
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