Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, The
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780375898648
Description: From the acclaimed author of Amelia Lost and The Lincolns comes a heartrending narrative nonfiction page-turner--and a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Deftly maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants and urban workers--and their eventual uprising--Fleming offers up a fascinating portrait, complete with inserts featuring period photographs and compelling primary-source material that brings it all to life.
Table of contents: label: Before You Begin; label: Family Tree; label: Map; label: Russia, 1903; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: Peasant Turned Worker; label: Part One
title: Before the Storm; label: Chapter One
title: “I Dreamed That I Was Loved”; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: A Peasant Boyhood; label: Chapter Two
title: “What a Disappointment!”; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: Lullabies for Peasant Babies; label: Chapter Three
title: “A Small Family Circle”; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: Another Family Circle; label: Part Two
title: Dark Clouds Gathering; label: Chapter Four
title: The Year of Nightmares; label: Chapter Five
title: Lenin, the Duma, and a Mystic Named Rasputin; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: House No. 13; label: Chapter Six
title: “Pig and Filth” and Family Fun; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: An Occupation for Workers’ Daughters; label: Chapter Seven
title: Gathering Clouds; label: Chapter Eight
title: Three Centuries of Romanovs; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: A Different Kind of Education for a Different Kind of Boy; label: Photo Insert 1; label: Part Three
title: The Storm Breaks; label: Chapter Nine
title: “My God! My God! What Madness!”; label: Chapter Ten
title: In Defense of Mother Russia; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: Vasily’s Diary; label: Chapter Eleven
title: “The Reign of Rasputin”; label: Chapter Twelve
title: It All Comes Tumbling Down; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: Molecule in a Storm; label: Chapter Thirteen
title: “Ye Tyrants Quake, Your Day Is Over”; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: “Ye Tyrants Quake, Your Day Is Over”; label: Part Four
title: Final Days; label: Chapter Fourteen
title: “Survivors of a Shipwreck”; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: The “Tsar’s Surprise Party”; label: Chapter Fifteen
title: Into Siberia; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: Swarming the Palace; label: Chapter Sixteen
title: The House of Special Purpose; label: Chapter Seventeen
title: Deadly Intent; label: Chapter Eighteen
title: “The World Will Never Know What Has Become of Them”; label: Beyond the Palace Gates
title: Life Under Lenin; label: Photo Insert 2; label: Acknowledgments; label: Bibliography; label: The Romanovs Online; label: Notes