The Romanovs Under House Arrest : The Russian Revolution and A Royal Family's Imprisonment in their Palace

A detailed account of the Romanovs' house arrest at the Alexander Palace in 1917 amid revolution, illness, and political chaos.Although many books cover the lives of Russiarsquo;s last royal family in some considerable detail, theirtime spent under house arrest in their own domestic family home - the Alexander Palace, outside St.Petersburg - is often covered in a few scant pages, or a chapter at most. But when set against theRevolution and the abdication of the Tsar, these few months from February to August 1917 take ontremendous significance and deserve to be studied in some detail, as events spiralled out of controland the Romanovs found themselves virtual prisoners in their own palace.Worse still, with theaforementioned Tsar - Nicholas II - away and ensconced in the vicissitudes of World War One, it wasleft to his wife Alexandra - favorite granddaughter of Queen Victoria - to commandeer a householdincreasingly under siege, while simultaneously caring for a haemophiliac son and four daughters laidlow by

life-threatening measles. Alexandrarsquo;s boast that she was the one who lsquo;wore the trousersrsquo; isthus put to the test in the hardiest of scenarios, as she found herself forced both to bolster a flaggingpalace garrison against the possibility of attack by bloodthirsty insurgents, while attempting to holdtogether a domestic staff increasingly fearful for their own lives in the face of mob retribution.Meanwhile, the German High Command set about releasing a veritable human bacillus - Leninhimself - back toward his native Russia, in a novel attempt to destabilise the Russian war machinefurther still.Not simply a blow-by-blow account of the daily lives of a monarchy defiled, this book runs in tandemwith the Russian Revolution as it surges out from Petrograd and toward the idyllic suburbs that theRomanovs called their home hellip; without Rasputin to rally them, who can save the dynasty now?! [Publisher's Text]