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Toronto: A Penguin Studio Madison Press Book BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards Lightly Marked (White Marks). DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The last tsar's youngest daughter tells her own story. DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION: Gordon Sibley Design. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Hugh M. Brewster. PROJECT EDITOR: Mireille Majoor. TEXT EDITOR: Shelley Tanaka. RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION: Alla Savranskaia. MAP: Jack McMaster. PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: Susan Barrable. PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR: Donna Chong. PICTURE CREDITS: The endpapers of this book and all black-and-white and hand-colored photographs, album pages and quotes from the letters of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaievna, unless otherwise designated, are courtesy of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow. All color photographs, unless otherwise designated, are by Peter Christopher. SYNOPSIS: "She was the imp of the whole house...it was… Read More

Scarborough: A Signet Book from New American Library Times Mirror - The New American Library of Canada Limited Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. FOR THE MILLIONS ENTHRALLED BY NICHOLAS & ALEXANDRA! SUB-TITLE: Empresses of all the Russias. BOOK NUMBER: J6455. EDITED BY: Jay Gold. CONTENTS: Foreword; Note on Spelling; Cast of characters; Prologue; I. A Gallery of Elizabeths; II. Empress Catherine Remembers Princess Sophia; III. . . . And Grand Duke Peter; IV. A Wedding That Redeemed a Vow; V. The Imprisoned Newlyweds; VI. The Inescapable Need for an Heir; VII. An Heir Is Created; VIII. Lessons of the "Third Rome"; IX. Politics, War, and Love; X. High Jinks and the Higher Intrigue; XI. "Three equally Dangerous Paths"; XII. Elizabeth and Catherine: The Great Confrontation; XIII. The Death of Elizabeth; XIV. The… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1998. BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. 101 illustrations. WITH NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED PERSONAL REMINISCENCES BY: the Family of Vasily Filatov. TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY: Marian Schwartz and Antonina W. Bouis. ON THE FRONT COVER: The young Tsarevich Alexei Romanov and the man known as Vasily Filatov. Were they the same person? CONTENTS: From the Russian Publisher; The Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II; In Captivity (Letter of Dr. Botkin); The Execution (Accounts of the Executioners); The Search (Report by Dr. William R. Maples); The Rescue of Tsarevich Alexei; The End of the Romanovs?; Personal Reminiscences by the Family of Vasily Filatov; Appendix; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; Photograph Credits. SYNOPSIS: Vasily Filatov, a village teacher who lived under the harsh censorship and control of the Soviet Union, had… Read More