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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (January 19, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312603479
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312603472
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsA gritty, day-by-day narrative of 14 days leading to a massacre
By S. McGee TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on February 9, 2009
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Anyone picking up this book is likely to have read some of the other literature on the Romanovs or the Russian Revolution, notably the Robert Massie biography, Nicholas and Alexandra and the follow up volume, The Romanovs: the Final Chapter. This is an altogether bleaker narrative -- if you can imagine such a thing -- that revolves around the day-to-day lives of the Romanovs, their captors and, at a distance, Lenin, George V and others who helped determine their fate.

The format is straightforward: Rappaport uses each of the last 14 days of the lives of the former Tsar and his family (the unpopular Empress Alexandra, their hemophiliac son, Alexey, and four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia) as the focus of a chapter. In each chapter, she explores the state of the debate about the Tsar's future or the issues that were likely to affect that -- such as the relentless advance of Czech 'White' troops in the direction of the city of Ekaterinburg where the Romanov family now lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world. The result is a relentless "tick tock" account of how hope slipped away, of how the family lived side by side with guards who were making meticulous preparations for their deaths, of the petty indignities they suffered and the petty squabbles in which they still indulged.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThree and a half stars...
By Cynthia K. Robertson TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on March 8, 2009
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Since my high school years, I have been enthralled with the story of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov and their tragic story. Every year or so, I need a Romanov-fix, and Helen Rappaport provided just that with her new book, The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg. There is much to like in this book, but also, a few detractions.

There are hundreds and hundreds of books on the last tsar and his family. Many of them just rehash the same information, over and over again. Rappaport tries to give a more in-depth look at the last 14 days that the Romanovs were in captivity in Ekaterinburg. She gives just enough background for those who may not know the entire story. Some of her descriptions and observations are first-rate. In describing Nicholas, "how had this devout, insistently dull and dogmatic little man, whose primary interest was family life, come to be demonised as the repository of all that was corrupt, reactionary and despotic about the Romanov dynasty?" When the family was descending into the basement of the Ipatiev House on that July evening, she writes "Twenty-three steps--one for every year of Nicholas's disastrous reign--now led him and his family to their collective fate." I especially liked learning more about the city of Ekaterinburg, as well as Woodrow Wilson's dilemma about aiding Russia. Rappaport's research in this respect is well done.

But what bothered me about The Last Days of the Romanovs is that there are no endnotes. There were so many times that I would read a new fact--something I had never heard before. My first instinct was to see where it came from so that I could learn more. The author gives her reasons for not including endnotes in her "Notes on Sources", but I don't agree with them.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsIt has a few fresh bits, but doesn't quite meet the mark.
By Rebecca Huston on October 5, 2009
Format: Hardcover
With every turn of the calendar, I see the release of yet another book on the last monarch of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II, and his family, hit the bookstores. And nearly all of them have something 'new' to say on the execution of the family, and their servants, on a warm summer night in July 1918, in the city of Ekaterinburg.

This time, the focus is on the doomed family's final days of life, with each day being chronicled by a chapter in Helen Rappaport's The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg. It's a nice twist, but rather crammed, as the author, a historian specializing in Russian history, explores each member of the family in turn. Of course, there is Nicholas, the father, and once ruler of the largest empire the world had seen. By the opening chapter, he had abdicated from the throne as unrest swept Russia from the terrible results of entering the first World War. Suffering from effects of stress and confinement, the only thing that seems to be holding him together is his family and the endless smoking of cigarettes. Alexandra, his German-born, but English-trained and speaking wife, is next, herself suffering from the effects of poor overall health and constant fretting over her youngest child. Rappaport makes much of Alexandra's mental state and possibility of menopause, and conveniently forgets how devastating physical ailments alone can make a person -- Alexandra suffered since a teenager from the results of sciatica.

The daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, are as most writers do, lumped into a single mass. While it is a given that the four daughters thought of themselves as a group -- they would sign notes and make presents as 'OTMA' -- they were very much individualists as well.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent

Terrific read. Couldn't put it down. I read it in three sittings. It seems like I was in the crowded house with the hapless simple tsar, the dying boy, the arrogant tsarina along... Read more

Published 5 hours ago by Paul Schulte
5.0 out of 5 starsFascinating, comprehensive, suspenseful history!

Honestly, even though I knew what would befall the Romanovs, my heart was hammering in my chest during the last thirty pages of this book! Read more

Published 4 days ago by Louise D. Somes
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Wonderful account so moving and so very sad for the men who had to wipe them out.

Published 5 days ago by MRS EBA STRICK
4.0 out of 5 starsThe Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen...

I am glad I gave Helen Rappaport another chance. I did not enjoy her previous book, The Romanov Sisters The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra. Read more

Published 7 days ago by Rose surrey
5.0 out of 5 starsLoved it. Very well written

Couldn't put this one down once I got into it. Loved it. Very well written.

Published 1 month ago by bebethreads
5.0 out of 5 starseven at the worst of times

Ms. Rappaport's writing provides a poignant look at a doomed family and shows their devotion to one another, even at the worst of times.

Published 3 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsGood read

Well written and poignant story. Great for history buffs like myself.

Published 5 months ago by scribner
5.0 out of 5 starsLoved it

Excellent book!

Published 5 months ago by Karen L. Carrello
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Very informative.

Published 6 months ago by LaRue A. Rigby
5.0 out of 5 starsHistorian is a natural storyteller

Everything you want in a directed historical account--tension like a thriller, suspenseful pacing, thoughtful treatment of its characters, thorough research and elegant writing. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Bryony

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