Massie, Robert K.

Explores the historical importance of sea power in the winning of World War I, discussing how the navies of Great Britain and Germany helped determine the outcome of the war and the future of naval warfare.

A biography of Russian empress Catherine the Great, discussing her childhood, her rise to the throne, the values and beliefs she used to guide her rule over Russia, contacts she had over the years, and more.

A biography of Peter the Great, emperor of Russia, who lived during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and struggled to bring Russia out of its medievalism.

Discusses the diplomatic and naval history of Great Britain and examines the reasons Germany chose to challenge Britain's undisputed naval supremacy, causing shifts in the world's national alliances and leading to World War I.

Relates the investigation of nine skeletons that were found in 1991 and identified as Tsar Nicholas and his family. Discusses the imprisonment and assassination of the family and Anna Anderson who claimed to be Grand Dutchess Anastasia.

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia. The site was a few miles from the Ipatiev House where the Tsar and his family, and retainers, had been murdered seventy-three years before. Authenticating these bones as those of the Romanovs added yet another chapter to the Russian Revolution of 1917. But when all the testing was done, and the bones were authenticated as those of the Russian royal family, it was discovered that two of the children were missing: one daughter and the son, Alexis, the tsarevich. Which daughter it was could not be determined but it was either Marie or Anastasia. After the bones were identified, fresh rumors persisted that Anna Anderson, who for sixty years had maintained she was Anastasia, really was the only surviving member of the royal family.

The story of the last Tsar of Russia, his life, the lives of his family, the end of Russia as an autocracy, the murders of the Romanov family, and the Russian Revolution.

An intimate account of the last of the Romanovs and the fall of Imperial Russia--Cover.