Title:
Nicholas and Alexandra / Robert K. Massie.
ISBN:
9780345438317
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Edition:
First Ballantine edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Ballantine Books, 2000.
Physical Description:
613 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Contents:
1894: Imperial Russia -- Tsarevich Nicholas -- Princess Alix -- Marriage -- Coronation -- New Tsar -- Two revolutionaries -- Kaiser's advice -- 1905 -- Tsar's village -- "OTMA" and Alexis -- Mother's agony -- Royal progress -- "Little one will not die" -- Rasputin -- Holy devil -- "We want a great Russia" -- Romanov dynasty -- Long summer of 1914 -- For the defense of Holy Russia -- Stavka -- "Poor fellows, they are ready to give their lives for a smile" -- Fateful deception -- Government disintegrates -- Prince and the peasant -- Last winter at Tsarskoe selo -- Revolution: March 1917 -- Abdication -- Empress alone -- Citizen Romanov -- "His Majesty's government does not insist" -- Siberia -- Good Russian men -- Ekaterinburg -- Epilogue -- Genealogy of Nicholas and Alexandra -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
More than a quarter of a century after it was first published in hardcover comes a never-before-issued trade paperback edition of the classic Nicholas and Alexandra. Featuring a new introduction by its Pulitzer Prize -- winning author, this powerful work sweeps us back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs' lives: Nicholas's political naivete, Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis's brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Robert K. Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history -- the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
Program Information:
Reading Counts RC High School 9 49 Quiz: 13176 Guided reading level: NR.
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Electronic Access:
Sample text http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/99091507-s.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/99091507-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/99091507-d.html
Audience:
1140L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocm43485080
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