Robert K. Massie "The Romanovs: The Final Chapter."
In 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinberg, Siberia. Were these the remains of the last tsar and his family, murdered by communists criminals over 70 years before? Pulitzer Prize winner Massie now answers this question, going back to the horrifying moments of the slaughter, and describing in detail the ultimately successful efforts in post-communist Russia to discover the truth.
Massie recreates the slaughter of Alexandra, Nicholas and their children, Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia and Alexis, family physician Eugene Botkin, valet Trupp, maid Anna Demidova and cook Kharitonov on the night of July 16-17, 1918, at the Ipatiev House in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg.
For some 60 years, the whereabouts of their bodies remained a mystery, until a retired Siberian geologist and a Moscow filmmaker found four skulls―that they kept secret until 1989―when glasnost made revelation possible.
Random House; First Edition, 1995. Photos.
Hardcover with DJ.
New book. Tiny taped tear on DJ. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing. Book in very good visual and excellent technical condition.