A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.
On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the Imperial family: the former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey. Thirteen days later, at Yurovsky's command, and on direct orders from Moscow, the family was gunned down in a blaze of bullets in a basement room.
This is the story of those murders, which ended 300 years of Romanov rule and began an era of state-orchestrated terror and brutal repression.
| ISBN: | 9780099520092 |
| Publication date: | 2nd April 2009 |
| Author: | Helen Rappaport |
| Publisher: | Windmill Books an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 254 pages |
| Genres: |
European history Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions |
A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.
On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the Imperial family: the former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey. Thirteen days later, at Yurovsky's command, and on direct orders from Moscow, the family was gunned down in a blaze of bullets in a basement room.
This is the story of those murders, which ended 300 years of Romanov rule and began an era of state-orchestrated terror and brutal repression.
Ekaterinburg features in the following genres: European history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
Ekaterinburg is available in Paperback
Ekaterinburg was written by Helen Rappaport and published by Windmill Books an imprint of Random House
Ekaterinburg has 254 pages
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