Nicholas and Alexandra av Robert K. Massie

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<b>A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs ¿ Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra.</b>Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning <i>Peter the Great</i>, 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 played out on the brutal stage of early twentieth-century Russian history ¿ the tale of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.