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After the Romanovs - Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
A TLSand ProspectBook of the Year From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Romanov Sisterscomes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the la ...Show more
After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also b ...Show more
Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
"A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport." (Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author, The Romanovs)). Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful tel ...Show more
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
"A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport." (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs). "Next year's centenary will prompt a raft of books on the ...Show more
Caught in the Revolution - Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
Selected as a Book of the Year in the Telegraphand Evening Standard 'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The R ...Show more
Conspirator: Lenin in exile by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile: the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th-century history. It tells the story of Lenin in the long and difficult years leading up to the Russian Revolution - years that were spent constantly on ...Show more
Ekaterinburg : The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
On July 4, 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the Imperial family: the former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey. Thirteen da ...Show more
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
This is a vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives. On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the ...Show more
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
Category: Biography
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the l ...Show more
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
Category: Biography
Award-winning and critically acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport turns to the tragic story of the daughters of the last Tsar of all the Russias, slaughtered with their parents at Ekaterinburg. On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. Th ...Show more
Four Sisters:the Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
Category: History
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the l ...Show more