The Romanovs : 1613-1918
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin.
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- Full title :The Romanovs : 1613-1918 / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Summary
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin.
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-669) and index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxxiv, 745 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some colour), genealogical table, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780297852667, 0297852663
- oclc:on1281105232
Table of Contents
Act I: the rise -- Act II: the apogee -- Act III: the decline.
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