The Romanov Family Album (Hardcover)

by Robert Massie (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 127 pages
• Publisher: Vendome Pr (October 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865650195
• ISBN-13: 978-0865650190
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,234,652 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating photo collection, March 15, 2000

By A Customer

"The Romanov Family Album" is probably one of the earlier photo collections on the last imperial family of Russia. The photographs come from the photo albums of Ania Vyrubova, Empress Aleksandra's closest friend; the albums are now among the collections in Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Most of the pictures are of the family's annual summer trips to the Crimea and through the fjords of Finland, with a fair smattering of the family during World War I and a few photographs of the imperial family in captivity at Tobolsk. Numerous lengthy excerpts from Ania Vyrubova's chatty memoirs add some entertaining color. An introduction by Robert Massie gives a brief (and interesting) history of how the albums ended up with Yale.

On the whole this is a very interesting book. The main flaw is that it's very difficult to find.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars an excellent pictorial account..., April 4, 2002

By	Kaliopi Pappas "Tatiana Larina" (Stockton, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this is a wonderful collection of images, but so many of them are presented poorly. they're extremely grainy and tinted hideous sepia tones. chalk it up to the 80's, i guess.

despite this problem, the album is definitely worth adding to your collection if you are a serious Romanov fan. General royalty buffs who want just one Romanov photo book would do better with Prince Michael's _Nicholas & Alexandra: The Family Albums_ (a book that everyone interested in royalty and/or the Romanovs should have, imo).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow., March 6, 2002

By	E. Duncan "lanied86" (Simi Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Lovely photographs. I have seen many of these before at Yale's Digital Beinecke Library, but some are new to me. It shows Nicholas II not as an autocrat or the "tyrant" historians say he was--it shows him as a kind man who adored the world he knew, that of his wife, smiling beautiful girls and his happy, albeit ill, son.