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  • Hardcover: 254 pages
  • Publisher: Hutchinson (5 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091921155
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091921156
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64,723 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Perhaps the most accurate depiction of the demise of Nicholas and Alexandra that I've read. Beautifully researched and written...'
--Robert Alexander, author of THE ROMANOV BRIDE

Dr Harry Shukman, Emeritus Fellow of Modern Russian History, St Antony's College Oxford
'Utterly absorbing, a really good read, sensitive and balanced and surely the definitive last word on the subject'


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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating book that could really be the last words on the final days of the Last Imperial Family, 30 Jun 2008
By Klaus van Amelrode "kmcva" - See all my reviews
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I have just finished your book and I can not say how much I enjoyed it. One feels strangely saying so as it is a sad story by any means.

I have lots of books on the Romanovs and I was quite hesitant to buy another one. What can be possibly new about the whole subject?

But I have to admit that this excellent book gave me a new inside and you were able to separate the political side of things, from the human dimension. There is no romantic or religious vision of the final days. It is not written with a hidden agenda of glorifying the last Imperial Family. It clearly separates the politcial story that led to the downfall of the dynasty and the the human tragedy.

Helen Rappaport did not write the story - as it is ever so often - from the end. I appreciated very much how she showed the different personalities of the Imperial family and how they coped with the new situation. The personality of Alexandra, her illnesses, the illness of the Heir and how this effected all of the family long before the fall of the dynasty. The view that the isolation of the family during their reign found a sort of continuation during the confinement, but without the demands of the rule, and were partly at least from the Czar "welcome" is indeed very convincing. Her final comments hid a nerve with me. On top, I just like Helen Rappaport's style of writing.


All in all, I enjoyed this book immensely, it is fascianting, well written and gives the reader much stuff for further thought. I can only recommend this book!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating book that could really be the last words on the final days of the Last Imperial Family, 9 Jan 2009
By Klaus van Amelrode "kmcva" - See all my reviews
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I have just finished your book and I can not say how much I enjoyed it. One feels strangely saying so as it is a sad story by all means.

I have lots of books on the Romanovs and I was quite hesitant to buy another one. What can be possibly new about the whole subject?

But I have to admit that this excellent book gave me a new inside and you were able to separate the political side of things, from the human dimension. There is no romantic or religious vision of the final days. It is not written with a hidden agenda of glorifying the last Imperial Family. It clearly separates the politcial story that led to the downfall of the dynasty and the the human tragedy.

Helen Rappaport did not write the story - as it is ever so often - from the end. I appreciated very much how she showed the different personalities of the Imperial family and how they coped with the new situation. The personality of Alexandra, her illnesses, the illness of the Heir and how this effected all of the family long before the fall of the dynasty. The view that the isolation of the family during their reign found a sort of continuation during the confinement, but without the demands of the rule, and were partly at least from the Czar "welcome" is indeed very convincing. Her final comments hid a nerve with me. On top, I just like Helen Rappaport's style of writing.


All in all, I enjoyed this book immensely, it is fascianting, well written and gives the reader much stuff for further thought. I can only recommend this book!
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Russian tragedy, 22 Jun 2008
By Lynette Baines (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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The fate of the Romanovs is well known. Many books have been written about the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II & his family - Tsaritsa Alexandra, Tsarevich Alexey & the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria & Anastasia - many of them full of wild speculation that some of the family survived the murders in 1918. Helen Rappaport's new book focuses on the last two weeks of their lives, imprisoned in the Ipatiev House (known to their Bolshevik captors as the House of Special Purpose) in Ekaterinburg, a small town in the Urals. The book is based on extensive research among Russian sources not generally accessible to Western researchers & this is its great strength. Rappaport alternates between taking the reader inside the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Ipatiev House, as the family's horizons are narrowed to the few rooms on the first floor, circling back through time to fill in background detail on the inept rule of the Tsar which led to the upheaval of revolution, & moving to Moscow, Petrograd & London as political forces influence the family's fate. The final chapters are harrowing with the description of the family's murder & the almost farcical ineptitude of the executioners. A compulsively readable book for anyone interested in the Romanovs or Russia in the 20th century.
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This is a wonderful book, very memorable, informative and readable, thoroughly recommend it for anyone with an interest in this subject.
Published 1 month ago by S. Smith

3.0 out of 5 stars Ekaterinburg
I found this most useful, as I am at present doing an Open University Course and this was a great insight into the Romanovs and it was not too difficult a read.
Published 2 months ago by Ms J M Wood

5.0 out of 5 stars Tsar's family come alive
This is a masterly work of history. Although, of course, we all know how the Romanov story ends, Rappaport takes us inside The House of Special Purpose where the Tsar and his... Read more
Published 11 months ago by booksetc

5.0 out of 5 stars New perspectives on a hidden history
It isn't easy to take on the Tsars. You're entering a minefield - the politics and bloodletting of the Russian Revolution and everything that followed: Stalin, the hunger, the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by C. Zaba

5.0 out of 5 stars Ekaterinburg
Using her extensive research of diaries, letters and eyewitness accounts, Helen Rappaport draws together the strands of this story to write an utterly compelling account of the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lady Het

5.0 out of 5 stars Ms. Rappaport possesses a remarkable ability to breathe life into people and places long gone
I am in absolute awe of Ms. Rappaport's research and writing abilities, particularly her keen descriptiveness and her uncanny ability to "see" and report on circumstances, people,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Steven Lavallee

5.0 out of 5 stars The lilies in the forest.
Most readers of Helen Rappaport's gripping account of the last weeks of the lives of the Russian Imperial family will already know what happened. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mrs Curzon Tussaud

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh perspective, at last
I took a risk with this book -- rather than wait months for the American edition, I pre-ordered it sight unseen and coughed up an extra 30% in shipping to the USA... Read more
Published 12 months ago by S. Miller

5.0 out of 5 stars The author
I haven't yet read this book so this is probably an inappropriate comment, and am so looking forward to doing so after having heard the author speaking on Radio 4. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Christina Croft

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