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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman. Dutiful daughter, passionate lover, doting grandmother, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport Publisher Comments The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family on the night of July 16-17, 1918 has long been a defining moment in world history. This book gives a riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of their lives, as the conspiracy to kill them... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: The Truth Behind the Romanov Mystery by Shay Mcneal Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-300) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon Publisher Comments Admired for her achievements and satirized for her personal life, Catherine the Great was one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Chronicle of the Russian Tsars by David Warnes Publisher Comments The lives of tsars famous and infamous are covered in a lively series of biographical portraits stretching from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Discover the facts behind the reputations of rulers such as Ivan the Terrible, whose... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery by Greg King Publisher Comments The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Nicholas II : Twilight of the Empire (93 Edition) by Dominic C. Lieven Review "Dominic Lieven far outshines any other biographer of Nicholas II." --The Times Literary Supplement "A rare balance of personal and political insight: timely and persuasive." --Kirkus Reviews "Dominic Lieven's outstanding book on the last Tsar needs to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers--the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign,... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the ... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution (Annals of Communism) by Mark Steinberg Publisher Comments The book is based on documents and photographs from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections. The documents, which appear for the first time in English (the language in which some of them were originally written), include... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days. Updated For The... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexandra: The Last Tsarina by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson by Frances Welch Publisher Comments Did the seventeen-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the massacre of the Russian imperial family in 1918? Over the years, the possibility that the youngest of the tsar"s four daughters might have escaped the killings has provided rich spawning... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs (New Russian History) by Akhmed A Iskenderov Book News Annotation Eleven biographical sketches written by Russian historians are notable as first efforts of the post-1985 period to reassess Imperial Russia's rulers. The work focuses on the human qualities of the emperors and empresses, and emphasizes nonideological... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls “a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman.” Dutiful daughter, passionate lover, doting grandmother, tireless legislator... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars by Solomon Volkov Publisher Comments In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family. Throughout the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander Publisher Comments The reign of Russia's notorious Empress is examined in an account of her German childhood, marriage to a Grand Duke and overthrow of his government, her infamous love life, and her multinational rule lasting more than three decades.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $20.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments From the moment the fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst agreed to marry the heir to the Russian throne, she was mired in a quicksand of intrigue. Precociously intelligent, self-confident, and attractive but with a stubborn, wayward streak,... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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