| Edition |
First Pegasus books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 382 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-362) and index. |
| Contents |
Tsar of all Russia -- At GHQ -- The February revolution -- Abdication -- Tsarskoe Selo -- Family life -- The provisional government -- The British offer -- Rules and routines -- On the lives of rulers -- Kerensky's dilemma -- Distant transfer -- Destination Tobolsk -- Plenipotentiary Pankratov -- The October revolution -- The Romanov dispersal -- Freedom House -- Learning from others -- Time on their hands -- "October" in January -- The Moscow discussions -- Rescue plans -- The Russian future -- Comrades on the march -- Tobolsk and Moscow -- Commissar Yaklovlev -- The order to move -- South to Tyumen -- Destination to be confirmed -- To the Ipatev house -- The Urals and its Bolsheviks -- Meanwhile, in Tobolsk -- Enduring Ekaterinburg -- A sense of the world -- Civil War -- German manoeuvres -- Last days in the house -- The Ekaterinburg trap -- The Moscow fulcrum -- The man who would not be tsar -- Narrowed options -- Death in the cellar -- Red evacuation -- Murders, cover-ups, pretenders -- The Czechoslovak occupation -- Romanov survivors -- The anti-Bolshevik inquiry -- Dispute without bones -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
A detailed account of Tsar Nicholas II's last eighteenth months draws on the Tsar's diaries, recorded conversations, and official inquiry testimonies to create a portrait of a man entirely out of his depth. |
| Subject |
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918.
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Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
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Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781681775012 |
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1681775018 |
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