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Description edit
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains-... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Anastasia Manahan: Add a description of this character.
- Dr. Maples
- Peter Gill
- Anna Anderson
- Ryabov
- Remy
- Nicholas Ii
- Richard Schweitzer
- Alexandra
- Abramov
- Pavel Ivanov
- Goleniewski
- Sokolov
- Marie
- Alexis
- Yurovsky
- Soloviev
- Alexander Avdonin
- Olga
- Mary-claire King
- Korte
- Tatiana
- Cyril
- Ginther
- Vladimir
- Maria
- Mrs. Tschaikovsky
- George
- Yeltsin
- Mrs. Smith
- Baker
- Kharitonov
- Leonida
- Franziska Schanzkowska
- Ermakov
- Dr. Botkin
- Matthew Murray
- Prince Philip
- Levine
Setting & Locations edit
- Ekaterinburg
- Russia
- Moscow
- England
- Charlottesville
- Aldermaston
- Sverdlovsk
- London
- America
- St. Petersburg
- Berlin
- Germany
- Europe
- Virginia
- Siberia
- United States
- New York
- Paris
- Washington
- Martha Jefferson Hospital
- Britain
- Ipatiev House
- Soviet Union
- Poland
- Scherbatow
- Madrid
- Kremlin
- California
- Berkeley
- Japan
- Denmark
- Nevolin
- Long Island
- St. Paul
- D.c.
- Cathedral Of St. Peter
- Nagorny
- Chicago
- Tobolsk
- Koptyaki
- Gainesville
- Romanovs
- Rome
- Ukraine
- Italy
- Florida
- Crimea
- Switzerland
- Victoria Melita
First Sentence edit
At midnight, Yakov Yurovsky, the leader of the executioners, came up the stairs to awaken the family.
Table of Contents edit
I: The Bones
1. Down Twenty-three Steps
2. Approved by Moscow
3. Let Me Find Nothing
4. A Character from Gogol
5. Secretary Baker
6. Curious About Death
7. The Ekaterinburg Conference
8. At the Frontiers of Knowledge
9. Dr. Maples Versus Dr. Gill
10. Ekaterinburg Confronts Its Past
11. Investigator Soloviev
12. Burying the Tsar
II: Anna Anderson
13. The Imposters
14. The Claimant
15. A Matter of Family Honor
16. These People Have No Standing
17. As Good as the People Using It
18. The Cleverest of the Four Children
III: The Survivors
19. The Romanov Emigres
IV: The Ipatiev House
20. Seventy-eight Days
Sources and Acknowledgments
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert K. Massie (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House, Inc
Country: United States & Canada
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 292
Publisher: Random House, Inc
Country: United States & Canada
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 292
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 947.083092
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