Modern Library (Hardcover): The Romanovs : The Final Chapter (Hardcover)

from MerryMary

A comprehensive study of the fate of the last royal family of Russia - the Romanovs. The story of the family's murder and the concealment of the bodies was fascinating. The story of the discovery of the bodies and the forensics of their identification was fascinating. What was not fascinating was...

from msaucier818

I truly enjoy the way author and historian Robert Massie writes books. There is something about the way in which he tells a story that makes it easy to read and informative all at the same time. This book looks at the murder of the family of the last Czar - Nicholas II. It then follows the afterm...

from corgidog2

Very interesting for those still wanting to know more about the last days of the Romanov family of Russia, their murders and their grave.

from EricCostello

The problem you have in reading this book is that it's very depressing; almost literally no one looks good in this narrative. Massie discusses the murder of the Russian Imperial Family in 1918, what happened to the bodies, early efforts in the Soviet period to recover the bodies, the formal effor...

from Whisper1

Written in 1995, at the time of publication, only nine of the eleven bodies of the Romanov family and their servants were found. In 2007, the bodies of young Alexei and his sister Maria were discovered. Massie is the author of the classic, well-documented and meticulously researched book Nicholas...