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Book

Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina

Call Number

  • 920 R8597 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Physical Description

xxv, 368 p. : ill., geneal. tables ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • Dramatis personae
  • Family tree
  • Setting the scene : the Romanov tercentenary
  • The empress's illness, and her friend Ania
  • Mystical circles, and the struggle to produce an heir
  • Autocracy in crisis
  • Beginnings
  • After the coronation
  • Family matters
  • Grigory the wonder-worker
  • Upsets at home, and the beginning of war
  • The great fight
  • From command to abdication
  • From ex's to icons.

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