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The story of the affection that ended an empire
In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning creator Robert Ok. Massie sweeps readers back to the bizarre international of Imperial Russia to inform the tale of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Towards a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a formidable drama of pastime and history—the tale of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.