The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia av Candace Fleming

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“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” —<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br> <br> Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia''s last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (<i>Amelia Lost</i>;<i> The Lincolns</i>) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia''s poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing read as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards.<br><br>"An exhilarating narrative history of a doomed and clueless family and