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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters and Caught in the Revolution, The Last Days of the Romanovs is Helen Rappaport''s riveting, moment-by-moment account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family.
The brutal 1918 massacre of the Romanov family may be familiar, but in Russian scholar Rappaport''s hands, the tale becomes as shocking and immediate as a thriller. . . . A gripping read. People magazine
This is the story of the murders that ended three hundred years of Romanov rule and set their stamp on an era of state-orchestrated terror and brutal repression. Counting down to the last, tense hours of the Imperial family''s lives, Rappaport strips away the over-romanticized versions of previous accounts. The story focuses on the family inside the Ipatiev House, capturing the oppressive atmosphere and the dynamics of a groupthe Romanovs, their servants, and guardsthrown together b
