Po své abdikaci strávil někdejší car Mikuláš II. s carevnou Alexandrou Fjodorovnou a dětmi měsíce v domácím vězení. Posledním dějištěm rodinného dramatu se stal „Dům zvláštního určení“ v uralském Jekatěrinburgu. Zanedlouho po příjezdu na... Zobraziť viac
„Bylo zhruba 2:15 ráno, když Jurovskij a Nikulin, za doprovodu dvou příslušníků vnitřní stráže s puškami, vedli rodinu v pološeru dolů po prudkých, úzkých schodech do přízemí. Romanovci se instinktivně seřadili podle... Zobraziť viac
The Race to Save the Romanovs will completely change the way we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia’s last imperial family... Zobraziť viac
'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.' Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author, The Romanovs)Caught in the Zobraziť viac
The story of two lone geniuses and the extraordinary race to invent photography. Capturing the Light starts with a tiny scrap of purple-tinged paper, 176 years old and about the size of a postage stamp... Zobraziť viac
From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light.Paris has always been a... Zobraziť viac
A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEARThe scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with... Zobraziť viac
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. Zobraziť viac
Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil – felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt where the foreign visitors and diplomats... Zobraziť viac
