Nicholas and Alexandra

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Introduction

Illustrations

Cast of Characters

PART ONE

ONE 1894: Imperial Russia

TWO The Tsarevich Nicholas

THREE Princess Alix

FOUR Marriage

FIVE The Coronation

SIX The New Tsar

SEVEN Two Revolutionaries

EIGHT The Kaiser’s Advice

NINE 1905

PART TWO

TEN The Tsar’s Village

ELEVEN “OTMA” and Alexis

TWELVE A Mother’s Agony

THIRTEEN The Royal Progress

FOURTEEN“The Little One Will Not Die”

FIFTEEN Rasputin

SIXTEEN The Holy Devil

SEVENTEEN “We Want a Great Russia”

EIGHTEEN The Romanov Dynasty

NINETEEN The Long Summer of 1914

Photo insert

PART THREE

TWENTY For the Defense of Holy Russia

TWENTY-ONE Stavka

TWENTY-TWO “Poor Fellows, They Are Ready to Give Their Lives for a Smile”

TWENTY-THREE The Fateful Deception

TWENTY-FOUR The Government Disintegrates

TWENTY-FIVE The Prince and the Peasant

TWENTY-SIX Last Winter at Tsarskoe Selo

TWENTY-SEVEN Revolution: March 1917

TWENTY-EIGHT Abdication

TWENTY-NINE The Empress Alone

PART FOUR

THIRTY Citizen Romanov

THIRTY-ONE “His Majesty’s Government Does Not Insist”

THIRTY-TWO Siberia

THIRTY-THREE Good Russian Men

THIRTY-FOUR Ekaterinburg

Epilogue

Genealogy of Nicholas and Alexandra

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Excerpt from Catherine the Great

Other Books by This Author

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