{"product_id":"the-last-days-of-the-romanovs-tragedy-at-ekaterinburg","title":"The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the sweltering summer night of July 16  1918  in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg  a group of assassins led an unsuspecting Tsar Nicholas II of Russia  his wife  the Tsarina Alexandra  the desperately ill Tsarevich  and their four beautiful daughters  Olga  Tatiana  Maria  and Anastasia  into a basement room where they were shot and then bayoneted to death. This is the story of those murders  which ended three hundred years of Romanov rule and set their stamp on an era of state-orchestrated terror and brutal repression. The Last Days of the Romanovs counts down to the last  tense hours of the familys lives  stripping 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 by extraordinary events. Marshaling overlooked evidence from key witnesses such as the British consul to Ekaterinburg  Sir Thomas Preston  American and British travelers in Siberia  and the now-forgotten American journalist Herman Bernstein  Helen Rappaport gives a brilliant account of the political forces swirling through the remote Urals town. She conveys the tension of the watching world: the Kaiser of Germany and George V  King of Englandboth  like Alexandra  grandchildren of Queen Victoriatheir nations locked in combat as the First World War drew to its bitter end. And she draws on recent releases from the Russian archives to challenge the view that the deaths were a unilateral act by a maverick group of the Ekaterinburg Bolsheviks  identifying a chain of command that stretches directly  she believes  to Moscowand to Lenin himself. Telling the story in a compellingly new and dramatic way  The Last Days of the Romanovs brings those final tragic days vividly alive against the backdrop of Russia in turmoil  on the brink of a devastating civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946214256693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312379765","price":24.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312379766.jpg?v=1769929842","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-last-days-of-the-romanovs-tragedy-at-ekaterinburg","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}