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  • Flight of the Romanovs

    Flight of the Romanovs

    The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga. John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov. A well-researched retelling of the history of the Romanovs, beginning with a young Alexander III in the 1860s, and ending with the death in 1960 of his daughter,...
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  • Marvin Lyons. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft. Nicholas II: The Last Tsar. This was one of the first, and is still one of the best, photobiographies on the remarkable life of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, spanning the years 1870 to 1918. The London editors of the venerable Routledge and Kegan Paul publishing firm sifted through some 35,000 photos, and chose 356 black and white photos which are reproduced in this exceptional book.

    Nicholas II: The Last Tsar [Photobiography]

    Marvin Lyons. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft. Nicholas II: The Last Tsar. This was one of the first, and is still one of the best, photobiographies on the remarkable life of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, spanning the years 1870 to 1918. The London...
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  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. Robert Massie. NY: Random House, 2012. 672 pages. Maps, notes, bibliography, index and a reader's guide. Paperback in gently used condition. The eminent Russian history biographer Robert Massie applies his...
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  • Peter I's (aka The Great) life story is a story that could only originate from out of a semi-barbaric and Western influenced Russia.  Massie portrays Peter the Tsar in extraordinary detail, starting with the 10 year-old boy who was crowned ruler of Russia. He writes about Peter's “incognito” travels in Europe, his ravenous curiosity about the West, his fascination with the sea and the navy, his forging of an unsurpassable army, and his arm-twisting (among other acts) transformations of Russia.

    Peter the Great: His Life and World [Massie]

    Peter the Great: His Life and World. Robert K. Massie. NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st edition. 909 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of photos, including 8 in color and 13 maps, as well as map endpapers. Hardcover with very good unclipped dustjacket in a clear...
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  • The Romanovs: 1613-1918. NY: Knopf 1996. 1st edition. 784 pages. Bibliography, notes and index. Illustrated in color.

    The Romanovs: 1613-1918

    The Romanovs: 1613-1918. Well-received and well-reviewed mammoth overview of three centuries of the Romanovs by Cambridge-educated historian S. Montefiore, who combines rigorous intellectual scholarship with the storyteller talents of a novelist, which...
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  • Nicholas and Alexandra [1st ed, 8th prtg]

    Nicholas and Alexandra [1st ed, 8th prtg]

    Nicholas and Alexandra. An intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia. Robert K. Massie.  NY: Atheneum, 1968 [April]. First edition, 8th printing. 584 pages. Massie (1929-2019) brilliantly traces the end of the...
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  • The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire. Felix Youssoupov (aka Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov) was rich, second in wealth only to the Romanovs. His family owned four palaces in St. Petersburg, three in Moscow, over 30 estates throughout Russia, and a host of coal mines, flour mills, oil fields, etc. So, who better then to scheme to murder Rasputin by luring him to his palace with the participation of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich (he first cousin of Nicholas II) than Yousoupoff? Greg King draws on documents from the St. Petersburg police files while chronicling this stranger than fiction story. Greg King chronicles this stranger than fiction account while filling it with details of pre-revolutionary Russian life. Included are many previously unseen photographs.

    Man Who Killed Rasputin

    Greg King. The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire. Felix Youssoupov (aka Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov) was rich, second in wealth only to the Romanovs. In 1916. his family owned four...
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  • The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty

    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...
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  • Elizabeth And Leycester: A Dramatic Biography [1939]

    Elizabeth And Leycester: A Dramatic Biography [1939]

    Frederick Carleton Chamberlin. Elizabeth And Leycester. Fascinating early 20th century biography of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and her childhood friend, Robert Dudley (1532-1588), Earl of Leicester (aka Leycester). Chamberlin sweepingly documents "the...
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  • Elizabeth. Empress of Austria. [1936]

    Elizabeth. Empress of Austria. [1936]

    Elizabeth. Empress of Austria. Count Egon Caesar Corti (translated by Catherine Alison Phillips). Empress Elizabeth of Austria (1837-1898), born Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, was better known as Sissi (aka Sisi) and was the wife of Austrian Emperor...
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    Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris. Wendy Salmond, Wilfried Zeisler, et al. (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Series.) Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail, Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the talent and charm of Old Russia. This is a labor of love by the Hillwood people, and the first full survey in English on the artist's career. Richly and profusely illustrated in color.   

UK (London): Giles, 2015. 144 pages. Medium format hardcover with color dustjacket. New condition in publisher's shrinkwrap. A comprehensive bibliography brings together resources on the artist.

    Konstantin Makovsky The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris

    Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris. Wendy Salmond, Wilfried Zeisler, et al. (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Series.) Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail, Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the...
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    A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story

    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...
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