Full name: The Romanovs: 1613-1918

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780307280510 9780297852667 0307280519 0297852663

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 tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag 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, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin, to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria and Lenin. Similar books: The Romanovs by W. Bruce Lincoln Red Fortress by Catherine Merridale The Shadow of the Winter Palace by Edward Crankshaw A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey Hosking Former People by Douglas Smith The Romanovs by Robert K. Massie Russia by Martin Sixsmith The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport Russia and the Golden Horde by Charles J. Halperin Red Mutiny by Neal Bascomb The Flight of the Romanovs by John Curtis Perry The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky A History of Modern Russia by Robert Service The Icon and the Axe by James H. Billington Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman