Showing posts with label The Romanovs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Romanovs. Show all posts
Monday, 29 December 2014

My Top 10 Books of 2014

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Good evening! This was a great year for books, I think. The year started of well for fans of the sixteenth century with Lauren Mackay...
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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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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, 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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Tuesday, 1 November 2011

November 1st, 1894: The death of Tsar Alexander III

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"God, God, what a day! The Lord has called to Him our adored, our dear, our tenderly loved Papa. My head turns, it isn't possible ...
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Thursday, 28 October 2010

The Queen and the Tsarina

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"Both women were vilified in ways that transcended all reality by their political enemies. In order to pull apart a family, destroy th...
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Saturday, 17 July 2010

July 17th, 1918: The Execution of the Romanovs

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"The decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of the summary justice showed the world that we would continue to figh...
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