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Title: Viimeinen tsaaritar : Venäjän keisarinnan Aleksandran tarina
Original Publication: Helsinki: Kust.Oy Kirja, 1928.
Credits: Tuula Temonen
Summary: "Viimeinen tsaaritar : Venäjän keisarinnan Aleksandran tarina" by Vladimir Poliakoff is a historical biography written in the early 20th century. It portrays the life of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, emphasizing her consuming love for Nicholas II, the sway of Rasputin, and how private devotion and family tragedy—especially hemophilia—shaped public catastrophe and the Romanov downfall. The work blends character study with political context, drawing on letters, diaries, and eyewitness recollections. The opening of this biography begins with a vivid scene in a small Paris restaurant, where the narrator encounters an émigré photographer and, through an eerie vision and surviving negatives, evokes Rasputin’s unsettling presence and paradoxical power. It then advances a central thesis: the form Russia’s revolution took was profoundly molded by the intense bond between Alexandra and Nicholas, illustrated through tender wartime letters and memories reaching back to their youth. The narrative sketches Alexandra’s background as “Sunny,” her strict upbringing, isolation, and the hereditary shadow of hemophilia that would bind her to Rasputin’s influence. It also paints “Nicky” as an unexceptional but affectionate man, and recounts their courtship and engagement at Coburg via Nicholas’s diary, before shifting to Windsor under Queen Victoria’s watch, where daily entries capture the couple’s growing intimacy amid punctilious court routine. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 24.0 (College graduate level). Very difficult to read.
Author: Poliakoff, Vladimir, 1880-1956
EBook No.: 76312
Published: Jun 15, 2025
Downloads: 102
Language: Finnish
Subject: Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918
LoCC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Viimeinen tsaaritar : Venäjän keisarinnan Aleksandran tarina
Original Publication: Helsinki: Kust.Oy Kirja, 1928.
Credits: Tuula Temonen
Summary: "Viimeinen tsaaritar : Venäjän keisarinnan Aleksandran tarina" by Vladimir Poliakoff is a historical biography written in the early 20th century. It portrays the life of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, emphasizing her consuming love for Nicholas II, the sway of Rasputin, and how private devotion and family tragedy—especially hemophilia—shaped public catastrophe and the Romanov downfall. The work blends character study with political context, drawing on letters, diaries, and eyewitness recollections. The opening of this biography begins with a vivid scene in a small Paris restaurant, where the narrator encounters an émigré photographer and, through an eerie vision and surviving negatives, evokes Rasputin’s unsettling presence and paradoxical power. It then advances a central thesis: the form Russia’s revolution took was profoundly molded by the intense bond between Alexandra and Nicholas, illustrated through tender wartime letters and memories reaching back to their youth. The narrative sketches Alexandra’s background as “Sunny,” her strict upbringing, isolation, and the hereditary shadow of hemophilia that would bind her to Rasputin’s influence. It also paints “Nicky” as an unexceptional but affectionate man, and recounts their courtship and engagement at Coburg via Nicholas’s diary, before shifting to Windsor under Queen Victoria’s watch, where daily entries capture the couple’s growing intimacy amid punctilious court routine. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 24.0 (College graduate level). Very difficult to read.
Author: Poliakoff, Vladimir, 1880-1956
EBook No.: 76312
Published: Jun 15, 2025
Downloads: 102
Language: Finnish
Subject: Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918
LoCC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.