The last of the tsars
Subtitle: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
By: Robert Service
Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781681775012
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Biography; History
Description: A detailed account of Tsar Nicholas II's last eighteenth months draws on the Tsar's diaries, recorded conversations, and official inquiry testimonies to create a portrait of a man entirely out of his depth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tsar of all Russia; title: At GHQ; title: The February revolution; title: Abdication; title: Tsarskoe Selo; title: Family life; title: The provisional government; title: The British offer; title: Rules and routines; title: On the lives of rulers; title: Kerensky's dilemma; title: Distant transfer; title: Destination Tobolsk; title: Plenipotentiary Pankratov; title: The October revolution; title: The Romanov dispersal; title: Freedom House; title: Learning from others; title: Time on their hands; title: "October" in January; title: The Moscow discussions; title: Rescue plans; title: The Russian future; title: Comrades on the march; title: Tobolsk and Moscow; title: Commissar Yaklovlev; title: The order to move; title: South to Tyumen; title: Destination to be confirmed; title: To the Ipatev house; title: The Urals and its Bolsheviks; title: Meanwhile, in Tobolsk; title: Enduring Ekaterinburg; title: A sense of the world; title: Civil War; title: German manoeuvres; title: Last days in the house; title: The Ekaterinburg trap; title: The Moscow fulcrum; title: The man who would not be tsar; title: Narrowed options; title: Death in the cellar; title: Red evacuation; title: Murders, cover-ups, pretenders; title: The Czechoslovak occupation; title: Romanov survivors; title: The anti-Bolshevik inquiry; title: Dispute without bones; title: Afterword.