The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra (Annals of Communism Series)
For the first time since the Romanov papers were carried off from the execution site at Ekaterinburg, most of the handwritten diaries of Tsaritsa Alexandra have been released to Russian scholars. In his lengthy introduction, Robert Massie (The Romanovs, LJ 10/15/95) has drawn on this translation by Kozlov (deputy director of the State Archive of the Russian Federation) and archivist Khrustalev to bolster information found in his own works. Very little of substance is added to the discussion of Alexandra by this cryptic diary, which takes on significance not so much for what it says but for the organizational patterns and styles that it assumes as the events of the final months of 1918 ebb and flow. Save for the introduction, this book is not necessary for most library collections. Recommended for academic libraries with Russian Revolution collections.?Harry V. Willems, Southeast Kansas Lib. Sys., IolaCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.