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Title: The Fate of the Romanovs by Greg King, Penny Wilson ISBN: 0-471-20768-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.54 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: LUMINOUS
Comment: ILLUMINATE: to clarify or enlighten. OBFUSCATE: to obscure or confuse. The recent spate of books written about the end of the Romanov dynasty and the fate of the imperial family do both. Some, the products of tortured logic and silly speculation, reduce this enormous historical event to Grand Guignol. Others do indeed shed light and unravel the twisted threads of the mysteries surrounding the collapse of a ruling house and the sad end of its last members.
The Fate of the Romanovs by King and Wilson is a tour de force, a brilliant book, the product of years of research in previously unexamined archives here and abroad. Flowing in style and meticulously documented, this history marches at its own relentless pace taking the reader week by week, night by night through the final months of the lives of the imperial family and their servants.
Although many readers will be familiar with the horrendous outcome of the Romanovs' imprisonment, the suspense leading inexorably to the slaughter is almost unbearable. No longer are we witnessing the massacre of cardboard figures but vulnerable, living human beings. No longer are the guards drunken louts but fully fleshed-out young men with conflicting passions and ideals.
But The Fate of the Romanovs is more than compelling historical drama. The authors have managed, in the course of their narrative, to document and illuminate such puzzling aspects of the Romanovs' last days as the purpose of Yakovlev's transport of the family to Ekaterinburg, the forgery of the Officer Lettrs, the control exercised by the Ural Soviet, the relationship between the family and guards, and the complex nature of Yurovsky, so often portrayed as a calculating murderer without conscience.
The epilogue is gripping in itself and a masterpiece of sleuthing. Not a mere compendium of characters and events, it tracks the waves of violence that wracked Russia for decades and tellingly describes how atrocities -- from the White Army's wholesale slaughter of Jews to the Soviets' killing camps -- decimated a population already ravaged by war and revolution. It is interesting to note how few of those men and women involved, even peripherally with the Romanov saga, lived out their lives in peace.
Especially for those students of history who believe they've read the final (and often fallacious) word on the fall of the
Romanov dynasty, The Fate of The Romanovs will be enthralling reading.
Gretchen Haskin
Author: "Imperial Affair"
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb research, well written, a must for any collection
Comment: King and Wilson do a fabulous job of researching a topic that remains to this day, politically charged. It is a great bonus to see the evolution of Greg King as a writer. The Fate of the Romanovs is very readable and it is doubtless an important book in the area of Romanov scholarship. While there have been many books written about the Imperial Family and their murder, the strength of this book lies in the depth of the authors' research and their logical analysis of that material.
Doubtless some may quibble at their use of Bolshevik sources. However, their approach to this seems fair and reasonable, in that they seek corroboration for them wherever possible. They make an excellent case, for example, for the murders being authorized by the Ural Regional Soviet rather than by Moscow and Lenin.
For anyone interested in this topic, Fate of the Romanovs is a "must have" for your collection.
(By the way, it appears that several Amazon "reviewers" have issues with sources rather than with the book itself. For this reason, I think their "reviews" are completely biased against this book and represent everything that can be wrong with Romanov scholarship - that facts are sacrificed in the name of pushing a particular agenda. It is a shame Amazon has no means of eliminating these "non reviews".)
Rating: 5
Summary: A voluminous tome and well-researched book
Comment: Having completed King and Wilson's aformentioned historical analysis of the fate of the Romanovs, it is without a doubt a must-read for anyone interested in the collapse of the Russian Empire and what brought about that fall. This account is largely unbiased, multifocused on personal, historical, and emotional factors that shaped the downfall of the Romanov Empire, and provide the reader with a plethora of information that shapes the context of time in which the events occur. Although a bit treacly at points, the book is vastly entertaining and does not require its reader to slog through the pages. For lovers of history, this is an excellent read for setting background on the political structure of late 19th and early 20th century Europe and the dynamics that brought about 2 World Wars. Indeed, a thoroughly researched account and well written!
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Title: Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin by Prince Felix Youssoupoff ISBN: 1885586582 Publisher: Helen Marx Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander ISBN: 067003178X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Camera and the Tsars: The Romanov Family in Photographs by Charlotte Zeepvat ISBN: 0750930497 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title:The Revenge Of The Romanovs ASIN: B00005O5JR Publisher: Home Vision Entertainment Pub. Date: 20 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $29.95 |
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Title: Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia by Charlotte Zeepvat ISBN: 0750927399 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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