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Fleming, Candace,

The family Romanov : murder, rebellion & the fall of Imperial Russia / Candace Fleming - First edition - 292 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-265) and index

Before you begin -- Russia 1903 -- Beyond the palace gates : peasant turned worker -- Before the storm -- "I dreamed that I was loved" -- Beyond the palace gates : a peasant boyhood -- "What a disappointment!" -- Beyond the palace gates : lullabies for peasant babies -- "A small family circle" -- Beyond the palace gates : another family circle -- Dark clouds gathering -- The year of nightmares -- Lenin, the Duma, and a mystic named Rasputin -- Beyond the palace gates : house no. 13 -- "Pig and filth" and family fun -- Beyond the palace gates : an occupation for workers' daughters -- Gathering clouds -- Three centuries of Romanovs -- Beyond the palace gates : a different kind of education for a different kind of boy -- The storm breaks -- "My God! My God! What madness!" -- In defense of mother Russia -- Beyond the palace gates : Vasily's diary -- The reign of Rasputin -- It all comes tumbling down -- Beyond the palace gates : molecule in a storm -- "Ye tyrants quake, your day is over" -- Beyond the palace gates : "ye tyrants quake, your day is over" -- Final days -- "Survivors of a shipwreck" -- Beyond the palace gates : the "Tsar's surprise party" -- Into Siberia -- Beyond the palace gates : swarming the palace -- The house of special purpose -- Deadly intent -- "The world will never know what has become of them" -- Beyond the palace gates : life under Lenin

When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants and urban workers -- and their eventual uprising -- Fleming draws a poignant portrait, complete with period photographs and primary source material

Ages 12-17 950 Lexile

ISBN: 9780375867828 0375867821 9780375967825 0375967826 9780605829022 0605829020

Source: Random House Childrens Books, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminister, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975

LCCN: 2013037904

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB485641 bnb

LC Class. No.: DK258 / .F5725 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 947.08/30922 B