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This is the story of some of the most shocking murders of the 20th century - murders that changed the lives of millions of people, both inside Russia and beyond, and set their stamp on a violent century, initiating a new and cynical era of state-orchestrated terror, repression and genocide. katerinburg - The Last Days of the Romanovs focuses on the last 13 days in the lives of the Russian Imperial family- the Tsar and Tsarita, Nicholas and Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Mariya, Anastasia and Alexey. It puts these last days of their incarceration at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg under the microscope, from July 4th 1918 to the night of their savage murders on July 14, in a blaze of gunfire in a basement room. lthough a wealth of books has fanned the flame of the reading public's love affair with the Romanovs, many have over-romanticised the story, and there has been a plethora of conspiracy theories and false Anastasias as well as coffee-table accounts full of iconic photographs of Imperial Russia's courtly splendour. In contrast, Ekaterinburg - based on new evidence that has become available since the fall of communism - strips away the romanticism and foc
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Helen Rappaport's most recent book is the acclaimed No Place for Ladies- The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (Aurum). A fluent Russian speaker and specialist in Russian history and 19th-century women's history, she was the Russian consultant in 2002 to the National Theatre's Tom Stoppard trilogy, The Coast of Utopia. She is also the author of biographical reference works on Joseph Stalin, Queen Victoria and women social reformers. She and William Horwood are co-authors of Dark Hearts of Chicago (Hutchinson, 2007), a thriller about journalist Emily Strauss of the New York World.
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