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The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: New Truths Behind the Romanov Mystery. HarperCollins, 2003. ISBN 978-0-06-051755-7; Montefiore, Simon Sebag. The Romanovs: 1613–1918. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ISBN 978-0307266521. Perry, John Curtis, and Constantine V. Pleshakov. The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga. Basic Books (A Member of the Perseus ...
The Crown Prince Alexei and one Romanov daughter were not accounted for, fueling the persistent legend that Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, had survived the execution of her family. Of the several "Anastasias" that surfaced in Europe in the decade after the Russian Revolution, Anna Anderson, who died in the United States in 1984, was ...
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, 1913. Alexei was a handsome boy, and he bore a striking resemblance to his mother. His tutor Pierre Gilliard described the 18-month-old Alexei as "one of the handsomest babies one could imagine, with his lovely fair curls and his great blue-grey eyes under their fringe of long curling lashes". [5]
A century after the brutal murders of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, and their five children (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei), the execution of the Russian imperial ...
A brief history of Ipatiev House, the fortified mansion where the Romanovs were held captive and executed on that fateful morning in 1918.
The Ingrian War lasted until the Treaty of Stolbovo in 1617, and the Russo-Polish War continued until the 1619 Truce of Deulino. Although Russia gained peace through treaties and preserved its independence, it was forced by Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to make substantial territorial concessions; most, however, were recovered ...
The two dynasties sat down to dinner aboard the yacht Victoria and Albert in the summer of 1909, nine years before the murder of the Romanovs.
The historian V. M. Khrustalev believed that by this time the Bolshevik leaders had devised a plan to gather all the representatives of the Romanov dynasty in the Urals, away from external dangers —the German Empire and the Entente— while ensuring they were in a location where the Bolsheviks had a strong political position and could ...