Was it a series of bad decisions that brought down the Romanovs?
Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...
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‘The Last Tsar’ Review: The Romanovs Reconsidered
The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” ...
‘Bronshtein in the Bronx’ Review: A Tall Trotsky Tale
The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...
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Romanov murders: Poll reveals near 60% of Russians see Czar’s family homicide as atrocity
MOSCOW, July 16. /TASS/. Most Russians believe the murder of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and his family members in 1918 had no justification, describing it as a monstrous crime rather than ...
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The Last Days of the Romanovs
It was a tranquil spot, undisturbed by the revolution; then, too, it boasted a comfortable Governor's Palace which had been prepared for the ex-Tsar and his family. But why, asks Nicholas Sokolov ...