Massie Describes the evil Rasputin

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	• Nicholas and Alexandra Robert K. Massie Ballantine Books, 2000 - 640 pages average customer review:based on 106 reviews view larger image
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Wonderful book

Wonderful book. This book gives quite an exhaustive account of events and personalities in Russia in period of Nicholas II. I am Russian myself, and absolutely everything that I knew about this epoch and the Royal family is summarized in the book. Given that it was written before I was born, I could not get rid of the impression that parts of the history books that I learned from were compiled from this work by Robert Massie.

The accessment of these events during the Soviet time, when the book was written, and nowadays are quite different, and I cannot stop admiring the discrete attitude of Massie and his unbiased evaluations of the personalities.

Reads easily as a novel. While it is a great advantage, this is also the only bit of criticism that I can add. The book about Peter the Great is harder to straggle through, but it gives a better account of the historical period in general, whereas "Nicholas and Alexandra", in order to preserve coherence and story line, concentrates on events in Russia only, assuming reader's familiarity with events and personalities abroad, as well as in previous periods of Russian history.
Still, wonderful read.

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Massie Describes the evil Rasputin

The thing that kept me awake nights while reading this book years ago were the vivid and terrifying descriptions of Rasputin. Massie paints him as a hypnotic, evil, controlling mystic who drives a gigantic wedge between Nicholas and his wife.

And the scene where Rasputin is killed - only goes further to add to the myth of his super-human capabilities. Rasputin scared me to death and I still shudder when I think of him now. He is not a major part of the story - but he's in it and can't be ignored.

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Nicholas and Alexandra

This is the best Romanov book ever! Its full of information. It starts when Nicholas and Alexandra are children to their tragic death with their five children and their servants and the doctor. Its also full of great pictures of the Imperial family! I recommend it very much! READ IT !!!

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Fabulous, as usual

Massie, per usual, writes a masterpiece that is extremely well researched and communicated in a way that makes it impossible to just read a chapter. This is a great supplemental book to use with kids in the classroom or for those teaching IB courses/Extended Essays.

Fascinating

After a recent visit to St. Petersburg, I became interested in learning more about the end of the Romanov dynasty and picked up this book on my return. I found it to be not only very well-researched but also extremely readable. Massie brings the characters to life on the page and creates a vivid, moving portrait of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra. This biography is most certainly not to be missed.

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