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Michael Romanov - Brother of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1916-1918 (Hardcover)
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Michael Romanov - Brother of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1916-1918 (Hardcover)
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In Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar, translator Helen Azar
and Romanov historian Nicholas B. A. Nicholson present for the
first time in English the annotated 1916-1918 diaries and letters
of Russia's Grand Duke Michael, from the murder of the Siberian
mystic Grigorii Rasputin through the Revolution of 1917, which
dethroned the Romanov dynasty after Michael briefly found himself
named Emperor when his brother Nicholas II abdicated. Michael's
diaries provide rare insight into the fall of the Empire, the rise
and fall of the Provisional Government and brief Russian republic,
and the terrifying days of the February and October Revolutions
after which Michael found himself a prisoner who would meet his end
in the Siberian city of Perm. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of
Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III,
but with the death of his brother Grand Duke George in 1899,
Michael was thrust into the spotlight and the role of
"Heir-Tsesarevich" to Emperor Nicholas II, then the father of three
girls. Even after the birth of an heir in 1904, Michael found
himself pushed closer to the throne with each of the boy's bouts of
hemophilia. By 1916 during World War I, Nicholas and Alexandra
found themselves deeply unpopular not only in political circles but
also with other members of the House of Romanov, who felt that the
parlous times required drastic change. Michael found himself at the
center of these events. Azar's translation is uniquely faithful to
the original text and gives readers the feeling of the immediacy
and haste in Michael's original observations of these tumultuous
times. Nicholson's annotations provide biographical and historical
background, while quoting dozens of other rare primary sources.
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