Nicholas and Alexandra
Author(s): Robert K. Massie
The story of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra has fired the world's imagination ever since their violent deaths during the Russian Revolution. In this biography, first published in 1967, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Massie sets out to show how the personal tragedy of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The book presents an account of one of history's most dramatic episodes, and a portrait of the two people caught at the centre of the maelstrom.
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A true classic - this is a powerfully engrossing account of the last Tsar of Russia 'The fall of the Romanovs is a subject of compelling interest and Mr Massie's treatment of it reads with the power of a novel' TES 'A superb book ... an exquisite story of love and compassion' The Times 'A rattling good story ... Mr Massie describes, in lavish detail, the magnificent life of the court of St Petersburg: the opulent palaces, the great balls, the fantastic jewels ... But Mr Massie's is by no means only an exotic guidebook ... he has a serious historical thesis to propound ... I have never seen it
Robert K Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929. He studied American History at Yale University and Modern European History at Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes scholar. He lives in Irvington, New York.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 0.44
- : 31 March 1996
- : 198mm X 129mm X 39mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robert K. Massie
- : Paperback
- : New ed
- : English
- : 947.0830922
- : 616
- : Revolutions & coups; Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military; Biography & autobiography: royalty; Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; World history: c 1750 to c 1900
- : 16pp b&w photographs