The story of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra has fired the worlds imagination ever since their violent deaths during the Russian Revolution. In this biography, first published in 1967, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Massie sets out to show how the personal tragedy of the young heirs haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The book presents an account of one of historys most dramatic episodes, anportrait of the two people caught at the centre of the maelstrom.

ISBN: 978-0-575-40006-1
Дата выхода: май 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rev. Robert Kinloch Massie IV (born 1956) is an American author, Episcopal priest, political candidate, and former anti-apartheid activist. He is the son of the famous author and journalist Robert K. Massie, and author Suzanne Massie. After receiving his high school degree from Hackley School in 1973, he was educated at Princeton University and earned both a Master's degree in Divinity at Yale and a Doctorate in Business Administration at Harvard. He was born with hemophilia. In the process of learning to deal with his disease, his parents began to study its history, including information on the most famous hemophiliac, the Tsarevich Alexis, son of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. Their...

ISBN: 978-6-1333-2440-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011