Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 September 2014

Elena Maria Vidal reviews my new book "The Emperors"

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Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, whose reign ended with the February Revolution of 1917 Elena Maria Vidal, creator of the Tea at Trianon bl...
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Sunday, 17 August 2014

An extract from "The Emperors"

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Below is an extract from my new book The Emperors , which is released in the US on the 19th and already out in the UK. This excerpt cove...
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Monday, 22 April 2013

The weakness of Tsar Nicholas II

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Ask any schoolchild or anyone with a passing knowledge of history to come up with one adjective they associate with Russia's last em...
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Friday, 5 October 2012

Long to reign over us: A brief history of the British monarchy (Part 2)

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Her Majesty the Queen is the second-longest reigning  monarch in British history, so far. She acceded to the throne following the death of...
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Friday, 28 September 2012

Missing Royals and Murder Mysteries: Anastasia and the allure of romance

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The story of Anastasia Romanov is one of the great melodramas of royal history. In life, the real Grand Duchess Anastasia was the teen...
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Sunday, 12 August 2012

12th August, 1904: The birth of an heir

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For most of the eighteenth century, the power of the Russian monarchy had been wielded by women. When his mother Catherine the Great di...
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012

17th July 1918: The Execution of the Imperial Family

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"Remember that the evil which is now in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but o...
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