The Romanovs 1613-1918
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarina...
| Main Author: | Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2016.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Two boys in a time of troubles
- Act I: The rise. Scene 1: The brideshows ; Scene 2: The young monk ; Scene 3: The musketeers ; Scene 4: The All-Drunken Synod
- Act II: The apogee. Scene 1: The emperor ; Scene 2: The empresses ; Scene 3: Russian Venus ; Scene 4: The Golden Age ; Scene 5: The conspiracy ; Scene 6: The duel
- Act III: The decline. Scene 1: Jupiter ; Scene 2: Liberator ; Scene 3: Colossus ; Scene 4: Master of the land ; Scene 5: Catastrophe ; Scene 6: Emperor Michael II ; Scene 7: Afterlife
- Epilogue : Red tsars/white tsars.