Secret lives of the tsars : three centuries of autocracy, debauchery, betrayal, murder, and madness from Romanov Russia
Book |
First edition. |
Random House Trade Paperbacks,
New York :
[2014]
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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Details
- ISBN: 9780812979053 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: xvi, 349 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cmprint
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note: Introductory chapter: The Time of Troubles and the rise of the Romanovs -- Ivan V and Peter I (1682-1696): one autocrat too many -- Peter I (1696-1725): the eccentricities of an emperor -- Catherine I (1725-1727): the peasant empress -- Anna (1730-1740): "a bored estate mistress" -- Elizabeth (1741-1762): the empress of pretense -- Peter III (1762): "nature made him a mere poltroon" -- Catherine II (1762-1796): "prey to this mad passion!" -- Paul (1796-1801): "he detests his nation" -- Alexander I (1801-1825): Napoleon's conqueror -- Nicholas I (1825-1855): "a condescending Jupiter" -- Alexander II (1855-1881): "a crowned semi-ruin" -- Alexander III (1881-1894): "a colossus of unwavering autocracy" -- Nicholas II (1894-1917): "an absolute child" -- Nicholas II (1894-1917): "gliding down a precipice" -- Nicholas II (1894-1917): a bloody end -- Concluding chapter: Aftermath.