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...FILE ON THE TSAR by ANTHONY SUMMERS and TOM MANGOLD 416 pages. Harper...
...midnight on July 16, 1918, in the Ural mining town of Ekaterinburg, Bolshevik jailers gunned down the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their 14-year-old hemophiliac son Alexei and his four sisters were all shot. A dubious postscript holds that one of the girls, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, escaped and is still alive...
...version of the Romanov regicide. Now two reporters from BBC Television, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, assert a dramatically new version: the Reds faked the original massacre scene in order to convince White Russians-who soon captured Ekaterinburg-that their goal of a royal restoration was hopeless because the Tsar and his family were dead. The two journalists conclude that there were not enough bullet holes or bloodstains in the murder room to accord with the gunshot deaths of seven people. In their opinion, the women were spared for a time. Alexandra was a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and King...
Assembled in Stockholm's hauntingly Gothic cathedral were four reigning monarchs (Belgium's King Baudouin, Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, Luxembourg's Grand Duke Jean and Norway's King Olav V), ex-King Constantine of Greece and ex-Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, eight princes, ten princesses and other assorted nobility...
...himself in comparison to Tolstoy, and constantly complained about literary "cliques" from which he felt excluded. He cut off relations with a life-long friend who had failed to introduce him to Tolstoy. Towards the end, Dostoevsky cultivated the friendship of Grand Dukes, and expressed his admiration for Tsar Alexander III. The last chapter of her reminiscences is devoted to a rebuttal of attacks made upon his character and his work after his death...