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Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly ... No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia ... Nor do I know any other book better designed to help Soviet citizens to struggle out of the darkness."--Ronald Hingley, The New York Times Book Review. Ground-breaking in its inclusiveness, enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon...
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Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden wealth of archival documents relating to the imprisonment and eventual murder of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children. Emanating from sources both within and close to the Imperial Family as well as from their captors and executioners, these often-controversial materials have enabled...
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In this evocative biography, internationally acclaimed historian Brian Moynahan pieces together the life and death of Rasputin-one of the most mysterious, paradoxical and infamous figures of pre-revolutionary Russia. This stunning audiobook provides insight into one of the most fascinating legends of the 20th century. Rasputin was born a peasant and remained coarse and largely uneducated his entire life, yet through his piousness, politics and charisma,...
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The murder of Rasputin on the night of 16-17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary: first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of his influence on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Or was he? Dramatic new evidence from previously unpublished documents, diaries, forensic reports and intelligence records now means the plot takes a remarkable twist. Grigori Rasputin is probably...
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Russians series (Judith Pella) volume 5
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The romance of Mariana Remizov, a Russian nurse, and Daniel Trent, an American war correspondent, during the 1905 Russo-Japanese War. By the author of Heirs to the Motherland.
47) Haunted
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Dreaming Anastasia trilogy volume 2
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A mysterious stranger is hunting Anne wherever she goes. No one sees her but Anne. When she searches for the woman's identity, Anne exposes secrets about her own life--things that will change her life forever. And when the gorgeous Ethan returns, her life gets a lot more complicated. Anne thought her journey with the Romanov family had ended, but it was just the beginning...
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He was Grand Duke Michael, handsome brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was the beautiful twice-divorced daughter of a Moscow lawyer. Everything was wrong...yet for Michael, it was love at first sight—an obsession that would lead to disgrace, humiliation, and exile. Their scandalous love affair and their runaway marriage to Vienna in 1912, trailed by the Tsar's secret police, caused uproar in Russia and was the talk of all Europe.
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...49) The lost crown
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In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the Tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by World War and revolution.
57) November 1916
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A novel on the 1917 Russian Revolution, chronicling the events which led up to it. The protagonists are its participants--from peasant to tsar. Part two of a multi-volume epic which began with August 1914.