Robert K. Massie
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| Original Title: | The Romanovs: The Final Chapter |
| ISBN: | 0345406400 (ISBN13: 9780345406408) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Romanovs #4 |
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In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated for more than sixty years in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.Details About Books The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (The Romanovs #4)
| Title | : | The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (The Romanovs #4) |
| Author | : | Robert K. Massie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1996 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published November 17th 1995) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Biography. Cultural. Russia. Russian History. Romanovs. Historical |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 6284 Users | 391 ReviewsEvaluate About Books The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (The Romanovs #4)
Warning: Not for the squeamish reader, this book contains detailed descriptions of the bodies of the murdered Tzar, his family and three of their loyal servants. When reading the passages related to the forensic analysis, I felt quite uncomfortable. In 1918, news of the tragic death of the Romanov shocked the world, since then, many have tried to solve the mystery regarding what happened. The book tells the story in four parts: the first focuses on the search and identification of the humanRobert Massie's definitive biography, Nicholas and Alexandra, was written prior to the discovery of the remains of the Romanovs and their most devoted servants and doctor who were murdered by the Bolshevists in 1918. This book, The Final Chapter, highlights the challenges faced in identifying the remains, including the views of competing interests who either wanted or didn't want the remains to be identified. This book was is a logical follow-up to Massie's classic biography of the Imperial
I read The Romanovs as part of my WW1 project. I will say that I am normally a huge fan of Robert K. Massies books having read the extraordinary biographies, Peter the Great and Nicholas and Alexandra.In this book Massie, some twenty years after Nicholas and Alexandra was written, seeks to revise the last chapter of N&A as new information came to light as part of Glasnost. Massie corrects the record on how the Romanovs were killed and how their bodies were disposed of in that summer of 1918
Kind of gruesome in some parts, although you probably won't think so if you're a fan of CSI or NCIS or any of those forensic crime shows. Also, it was published before some of the mysteries were solved or certain things were decided, even though people were in the process, and it hasn't been updated to include the solutions to any of the situations, if any. Other than that, it's really interesting, and in most cases, each person's point of view is represented fully and objectively. I enjoyed
Very, very good, although I must say, having read Nicholas and Alexandra previously was of immense help and is probably the best way to go about reading this.
After rereading the author's Nicholas and Alexandra (first published in 1967) I decided to pick this up for more on the Romanovs. It was published in 1995 and some significant discoveries were made after this date (including the discovery of the bones of Alexei and Maria). And the chapters on Anna Anderson (who thought herself Anastasia) and the Romanov relations got a little tedious. But Massie is an excellent writer and I learned more interesting details of the Romanov story.
4.5Such an intricately written, researched and thought-out novel, from the byzantine mind of Pulitzer-Prize winning author Robert K. Massie. The start drags a little (I mean, this is quite literally a book all about the methods of which the Romanov family were buried and the long process to identify the bones) but it eventually picks up, when Massie begins to chronicle the curious case of Anna Anderson/Anastasia Manahan and all the other charlatans/mentally ill people convinced they were one of
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