The last diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra
By: introduction by Robert K. Massie ; edited by Vladimir A. Kozlov and Vladimir M. Khrustalëv ; notes edited by Alexandra Raskina ; notes, chronology, glossary, and afterword translated by Laura E. Wolfson ; preparation of the diary, notes, and appendixes supervised by Timothy D. Sergay.
Contributors: Kozlov, V. A.; Khrustalëv, Vladimir M.; Raskina, Alexandra.
Series: Annals of communism
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918 -- Diaries.; Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918 -- Last years.; Empresses -- Russia -- Diaries.; Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917.; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
Description: "The last Tsaritsa of Russia, Alexandra Fyodorovna, was murdered with her family on the night of 16-17 July 1918 by agents acting on behalf of the revolutionary Bolshevik government. The dramatic story of the demise of the Romanov dynasty has been recounted many times and has captivated the imagination of generations of readers throughout the world." "The recently declassified 1918 diary of Alexandra - published here for the first time in its entirety - provides something no other account could do: a glimpse of the Tsaritsa's thoughts and activities from 1 January 1918 until the night of her death. As the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alexandra wrote in English, though her native language was German and she became fluent in Russian after her marriage to Nicholas. The 1918 diary takes us into her private world, revealing the care she lavished on her children during this period of revolutionary turmoil, how she felt toward her husband, Tsar Nicholas, and what she imagined about the profound struggle - between past and present, old and new worlds, the sacred and the profane - then occurring over the destiny of Russia. The diary reveals that even in her most intimate reflections, she remained the representative of a great system of belief that had prevailed for hundreds of years in Russia and that she and Nicholas hoped to perpetuate. We see in painful detail the tragic daily confrontation between this system of belief and the reality of the modern world that had, in every sense, broken free of her and Nicholas's control."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-222).