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236 reviews for:
Nicolau e Alexandra: O relato clássico da queda da dinastia Romanov
Robert K. Massie, Angela Lobo de Andrade
4.28 AVERAGE
236 reviews for:
Nicolau e Alexandra: O relato clássico da queda da dinastia Romanov
Robert K. Massie, Angela Lobo de Andrade
4.28 AVERAGE
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This was brilliant. A beautifully written narrative history/biography full of interesting characters at a turning point of modern history.
Although the Romanov's with hindsight seem quite naive, Massie is very sympathetic with them as parents dealing with a child with a horrible disease (he too had a child with hemophilia). Add to this one of the most fascinating and mysterious characters in all of history, Rasputin, it becomes a completely compelling drama.
Reading this you can't help but like Nicholas and his family, and hope that they somehow escape their terrible fate, a fate which led to decades of horror for their country.
I love Russian history but I think anyone with any interest in history at all would love this.
Although the Romanov's with hindsight seem quite naive, Massie is very sympathetic with them as parents dealing with a child with a horrible disease (he too had a child with hemophilia). Add to this one of the most fascinating and mysterious characters in all of history, Rasputin, it becomes a completely compelling drama.
Reading this you can't help but like Nicholas and his family, and hope that they somehow escape their terrible fate, a fate which led to decades of horror for their country.
I love Russian history but I think anyone with any interest in history at all would love this.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
I think this would be better if I was more interested in Rasputin and russias history. I enjoyed the bit about the Tsar and his life but didn’t care much for rasputins bits, hemophilia, World War One bits or the revolutionary’s. I enjoyed the epilogue and found it quite funny one turned into a champagne salesman and another a janitor in New York. But this took me forever to read a hundred pages and often I would get bored that I would want to check my phone. Also the way he would describe rasputins exploits irked me
While most biographies tend to be a bit dry and boring, this story of the Last Tsar of Russia and his family is a real page-turner. I was left with not only a better understanding of the causes leading to the communist revolution, but also felt that I knew the Romanovs as individuals. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in Russian history.
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I’ve wanted for years to find the time to read this masterful work by Robert Massie. It did not disappoint. Well-researched and supported by numerous contemporaneous documents, but written so well that the narrative flows without being booked down in overly academic or clinical minutiae. Highly recommended for fans of biographical histories.
challenging
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emotional
informative
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sad
medium-paced
Although an interesting real story, there were too many details for everything and it made a slow and boring read.
You know a history book is written well when the writer can place hope in you that the ending will be happy, even though you already know how it ends. Through this book I felt all kinds of emotions-- joy at the love between the couple, anger at the Empress for trusting Rasputin, and of course despair and sadness at the murder of the family. The thing I find most amazing of all is how the people didn't know-- and how, once the people did know, how they trusted their government after being lied to for so long. This book makes me want to read even more about the Romanovs, especially this family in particular. Even though I know the end, I keep reading in hopes that there is some happiness to be found in this tragedy.