The last of the tsars : Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution /
In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All Russia, abdicated the throne and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, eminent historian Robert Service examines Nicholas's life, in...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Tsar of all Russia
- At GHQ
- The February revolution
- Abdication
- Tsarskoe Selo
- Family life
- The provisional government
- The British offer
- Rules and routines
- On the lives of rulers
- Kerensky's dilemma
- Distant transfer
- Destination Tobolsk
- Plenipotentiary Pankratov
- The October revolution
- The Romanov dispersal
- Freedom House
- Learning from others
- Time on their hands
- "October" in January
- The Moscow discussions
- Rescue plans
- The Russian future
- Comrades on the march
- Tobolsk and Moscow
- Commissar Yakovlev
- The order to move
- South to Tyumen
- Destination to be confirmed
- To the Ipatev house
- The Urals and its Bolsheviks
- Meanwhile, in Tobolsk
- Enduring Ekaterinburg
- A sense of the world
- Civil War
- German manoeuvres
- Last days in the house
- The Ekaterinburg trap
- The Moscow fulcrum
- The man who would not be tsar
- Narrowed options
- Death in the cellar
- Red evacuation
- Murders, cover-ups, pretenders
- The Czechoslovak occupation
- Romanov survivors
- The anti-Bolshevik inquiry
- Dispute without bones
- Afterword.