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i1.46. Empress Marie Feodorovna with her son Nicholas, 1871.

i1.47. The heir to the throne Nicholas Alexandrovich, St. Petersburg.

i1.48. The family of Emperor Alexander III, St. Petersburg.

i1.49. Nicholas Alexandrovich, St. Petersburg, 1888.

i1.50. Nicholas and Princess Alix of Hesse Darmstadt at Coburg Castle on the day of their engagement, April 8, 1894.

i1.51. Coronation Day procession from Assumption Cathedral to the palace, Moscow, May 14, 1896.

i1.52. Nicholas, Alexandra, and their first child, Grand Duchess Olga, at Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich’s estate, Ilinskoe, 1895.

i1.53. Nicholas and Alexandra on the Kremlin walls.

i1.54. The ballerina Mathilda Kschessinska, 1897.

i1.55. Nicholas in the costume of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Winter Palace Ball, 1903.

i1.56. Alexandra in the costume of Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna, Winter Palace Ball, 1903.

i1.57. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich and his nurse with a goat, 1906.

i1.58. Alexei with his sailor-companion Nagorny on the tsar’s yacht Standart.

i1.59. The grand duchesses with ladies-in-waiting at the beach, Livadia, Crimea.

i1.60. A picnic during a hunt at Spala in Poland, 1912.

i1.61. Nicolas and Alexandra playing tennis, Germany, 1910.

i1.62. Alexandra embroidering in her lilac study at Tsarskoe Selo, 1912.

i1.63. Alexandra and the grand duchesses. Clockwise from top: Tatiana, Alexandra, Anastasia, Marie, Olga.

i1.64. The tsar’s family on the train platform at Borodin 1912, during the center of the Russian victory over Napoleon’s forces on September 7, 1812.

Trophies from the tsarist hunt in Belorussia, 1912.

Nicholas, Alexandra, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, and his future wife Countess Natalia Sheremetievskya frolicking on the deck of the Standart.

Alexei with his playmates and his companion Nagorny.

Tsarevich Alexei.

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JULY 1993

English language translation copyright © 1992 by Doubleday,

a division of Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in.1992. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Doubleday.

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Russian language version by Edvard Radzinsky

Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Radzinskiǐ, Edvard.

[Zhizn′ i smert′; Nikol II. English]

The last Tsar : the life and death of Nicholas II / Edvard Radzinsky ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. — 1st Anchor Books ed.

p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1992

I. Title

DK258.R2813 1993b

947.08’3’092—dc20

[B] 93–16757

eISBN: 978-0-307-75462-2

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

Author’s Note

Map

Genealogy

Prologue

Part 1 - Leafing Through the Tsar’s Diaries

Prelude: From the Archive of Blood

Chapter 1 - Diary of the Young Man

Chapter 2 - Diary of the New Tsar

Chapter 3 - Dress Rehearsal for the Collapse of His Empire

Chapter 4 - A Mighty Pair

Chapter 5 - The Tsar’s Family

Chapter 6 - Diary of the Successful Monarch

Chapter 7 - A Novel in Letters

Part 2 - The Death of Nicholas and Alexandra

Chapter 8 - The Fall of Atlantis

Photo Insert

Chapter 9 - The Prisoner’s Siberian Diary

Chapter 10 - Comrades

Chapter 11 - Secret Mission

Chapter 12 - The Last House

Chapter 13 - Flight

Chapter 14 - Preparations for Murder

Part 3 - The Secret of the Ipatiev Night

Photo Insert

Chapter 15 - The Investigation Begins

Chapter 16 - My Guest

Epilogue: Participants in the Execution (Fates)

Afterword (New Mysteries?)

Appendix

Selected Bibliography

Photo Credits