The Romanovs

Description:

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated for more than sixty years in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.

subjects: Pretenders to the throne,  Assassination,  Forensic osteology,  Family,  History,  II,,  Royalty,  Historical - General,  Emperor of Russia,,  Biography / Autobiography,  History: World,  Nicholas,  Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union,  Biography & Autobiography / Historical,  Russia,  1868-1918,  Fiction, historical, general,  Medical jurisprudence,  Inheritance and succession,  Nicholas ii, emperor of russia, 1868-1918,  Soviet union, history, house of romanov, 1613-1917,  Romanov, house of,  Soviet union, history, 19th century,  Soviet union, history, 20th century,  Russia (federation), history,  Kings and rulers

People: Nicholas II Emperor of Russia (1868-1918),  House of Romanov

Places: Russia

Times: Nicholas II, 1894-1917