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English
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A “masterful” (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great
“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow...
“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
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When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
Author
Series
Russians volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant account of the political forces swirling through the remote Urals town of Ekaterinburg at the bitter end of the First World War. Challenges the view that the deaths of the Romanovs were a unilateral act by a maverick group of Bolsheviks, and identifies a chain of command that stretches to Moscow-- and to Lenin himself.
Author
Series
Galaxy book volume GB 419
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1965
Language
English
Series
Minnesota paperbacks volume 19
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the many international plots to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the worldand its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime and its one hundredth anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Hiding her identity as the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Daria Gradov looks back on her luxurious childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, the machinations of an illiterate monk, and the circumstances that forced her to assume another life.