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The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album

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This is a wonderful Zeepvat book. It is similar in nature to others she has written. Although I enjoyed the book a lot, some of the pictures had been previously published in other books and forums. I would have liked to have seen more pictures that had never been published about their day to day life at Livadia, Tsarskoe Selo and on board the Standart. What i am saying is that maybe more access could be granted to different photo albums than just the usual that are referenced in other books and this one as well.

From the cover of this book I believed that I was purchasing a family album of JUST Tsar Nicholas II's immediate family. Although there is a whole chapter devoted to him and his children, this book is mostly filled with pictures of other Romanovs. The few pictures of Nicholas II and his children have been previously published.

The chapters of the book are as follows:
1. The Last Tsar
2. The Family
3. Marrying into the Family
4. Born Romanov
5. The Training of Princes
6. A Suitable Marriage
7. Family Ties
8. The Family at Work
9. The Family at Play
10. The Passing of the Tsar
11. War and Revolution
12. Full Circle

Although this book is advertised as a photo book, particuarly interesting for me was the information it gives about other, more obscure members of the Romanov family. Most photo's are accompanied by a paragraph discussing the family member involved, and this is especially helpful to me as a fan of woman's history when discussing Romanov Princesses who married into other European royal families. I believe these women, coming from the family they came from, were probably very formidable and interesting individuals in their own right, and I think it's a shame there is so little reading material available about them.