Nicholas and Alexandra

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“Massie’s history covers two terrible decades in European history and re-creates the doomed Romanovs with admirable clarity.… He puts the obscene Rasputin goings-on into the context of the Romanov court—fatally rooted in the half-barbaric system of old Muscovy.”

—Time

“Massie embarked on the task because, finding himself the father of a hemophilic son … he became fascinated by the sad case of Tsarevich Alexis, the effects of this tragedy on the conduct of his parents, and the impact of Rasputin on the course of history.”

—The Observer (London)

“Reads as lightly as a novel, as authoritatively as a textbook.”

—The Christian Science Monitor

“A larger than life drama, so bizarre, so heartrending and, above all, so apocalyptic, that no novelist would have dared invent it.”

—Saturday Review Syndicate

“Intimate history at its magnificent best.”

—Bestsellers

“I have a firm, an absolute conviction that the fate of Russia—that my own fate and that of my family—is in the hands of God who has placed me where I am. Whatever may happen to me, I shall bow to His will with the consciousness of never having had any thought other than that of serving the country which He has entrusted to me.”

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