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The Last Days of the Romanovs - The Murder of the Tsar & the Russian Royal Family, 1918 (Paperback)
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The Last Days of the Romanovs - The Murder of the Tsar & the Russian Royal Family, 1918 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R511
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The end of a dynasty
It is likely that few of those who contributed to the outbreak of
the First World War would have imagined its consequences or
predicted which nations would prevail, which would fall in defeat
and which would all but cease to exist. Very few would have
foreseen the fall of so many of the royal houses of Europe and yet
this came to pass; most prominent among them were the Romanovs of
Russia. It was almost inconceivable that the Tsar, who ruled over a
vast territory and many millions of subjects, would be murdered (or
executed, according to one's sensibility) with all of his immediate
family such a short time from when the power and influence of the
Romanovs had seemed immutable. But this was an age of global
warfare on an industrial scale, and of revolution and political
change that would affect the nature of war and peace for a century
to come. This highly regarded book considers in detail the downfall
of the Russian Imperial family, and the authors have drawn upon
eyewitness testimony of those who were close to these historic
events. The narrative follows the Romanovs to their deaths, ordered
by Lenin, in a Yekaterinburg cellar, so preventing the Tsar
becoming a figure for the White Russians to rally around. An
essential and recommended work for any student of the fall of
monarchy, Russian involvement in the Great War and the rise of
Bolshevism.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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