Biographies and Memoirs

Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty [1992]

The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty. Mikhail Iroshnikov with Liudmila Protsai and Yuri Shelayev. An early post-USSR breakup book on the lives of Nicholas II, Alexandra and their children beginning from the late 1800s. Contents include The Coronation, The...

Russian Blood [Memoir]

Russian Blood. In the early 1980s, Alex Shoumatoff became curious about the history of his family. At that time, both his grandmothers were in their 90s. With a heightened sense of urgency, Shoumatoff collected their stories and reminiscences  as...

Peter The Great [H. Lamb, 1948]

The City And The Tsar. Peter The Great And The Move To The West (1748-1762). Harold Albert Lamb's (1892-1962) prose is direct and fast-paced, well-researched and accurate to the time period. This is one of Lamb's scarcer titles. (A good synopsis of his...

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923. Olga Illyn. A gripping and enthralling memoir of the onset of the Russian Revolution and the path of defeat for the White Army. Illyn was a young bride and her husband, a White Army officer, and as members of the...

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story. Andrei Maytunas and Sergei Mironenko. A Lifelong Passion begins in 1884 with the couple's first childhood meeting and chronicles their intense courtship and first joyful years of marriage...