The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

A superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic... we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. —The Wall Street Journal   Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russias last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming Amelia Lost The Lincolns deftly maneuvers between the imperial familys extravagant lives and the plight of Russias poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing read as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards.