Project Gutenberg 2025-06-15 Public domain in the USA. 89 Poliakoff, Vladimir 1880 1956 Poliakoff, V. (Vladimir) Augur Poljakov, V. Viimeinen tsaaritar : $b Venäjän keisarinnan Aleksandran tarina $aHelsinki :$bKust.Oy Kirja, $c1928. Tuula Temonen "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.) 20250207035737poljakov 1928 FI Reading ease score: 24.0 (College graduate level). Very difficult to read. fi Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1872-1918 DK Text Category: Biographies Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: History - Royalty 537338 2025-07-30T07:34:42.500430 text/html 283048 2025-07-30T07:34:51.009416 application/epub+zip 289979 2025-07-30T07:34:45.950421 application/epub+zip 274759 2025-07-30T07:34:44.639403 application/epub+zip 533190 2025-07-30T07:34:55.111394 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 506865 2025-07-30T07:34:50.245399 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 507314 2025-07-30T07:34:42.112410 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 487557 2025-06-15T13:40:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12714 2025-07-30T07:34:55.252344 application/rdf+xml 16764 2025-07-30T07:34:45.162410 image/jpeg 3972 2025-07-30T07:34:44.894429 image/jpeg 282509 2025-07-30T07:34:42.562450 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog