The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

NY: Doubleday, 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Fine-Collectible/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" First printing. 462 indexed pgs. Blue boards. Navy cloth spine w/gold foil letters on spine. Maroon end papers. Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. Book design by Marysarah Quinn. Map and Family Tree by Claire N. Vaccaro. Author photo by Barbara Zitwer. Jacket photo: The Hulton Deutsch. DJ design by Carin Goldberg. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. Small faint soil spot on bottom edge. Back flap has faint crease. Secure ship w/track #. The execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family at the hands of revolutionaries in 1918 is one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, an event that brought the three-hundred-year rule of the house of Romanov to a brutal and tragic end and set the tone for the Stalinist atrocities that would follow. The truth behind these murders has long remained hidden, buried under more than seventy years of myth, legend, and speculation. Now, in a sensational biography that could not have been written before glasnost, noted Russian playwright and historian Edvard Radzinsky unearths solutions to many of the questions that have remained unanswered since the terrible events in Ekaterinburg on the night of July 16-17, 1918. Source: Publisher.