Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
A History, Cultural, Russia book. Lyn graciously loaned me Alexandra in the spring, following a conversation we had about how much we geek...
Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of the Soviet Union, acclaimed historian Carolly Erickson's masterful study brings to life the full dimensions of the...
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- Pages: 384 pages
- ISBN: 9780312302382 / 0
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This was a very detailed, and well written and researched biography of Russia's last Tsarina. It covers almost all of Alexandra's life, and does not gloss over aspects of her life or character. Alexandra herself was a woman I always felt was not the best decision maker, and had a personality that did not enable her to make the best... Written by a very accomplished historical biographer, who writes in English. Rasputin, Alexandra's most notorious mentor, enabled her to become totally dependent on him. Her hope was that he would help her to cure her hemophiliac son. Alexandra became more and more eccentric as she grew older. A fascinating read. Lyn graciously loaned me Alexandra in the spring, following a conversation we had about how much we geek out about historical fiction, and how cool it would be to go to Russia. Being a nerd about the Russian Revolution, I surprisingly hadn't read much about the family of the last tsar, Nicholas II. Most of what I knew about the family's...
