Nicholas and Alexandra

A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs – Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra.Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this comma ...

A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs – Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra.Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the story of the decline and fall of the ruling Romanov family: Tsar Nicholas II''s political naivete; his wife Alexandra''s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin; and their son Alexis''s battle with haemophilia.Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a family tragedy pla