A review by tilaumae
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days Of The Romanovs by Helen Rappaport

3.0

Read this book this weekend. Quite interesting, but a lot of names! I thought the chapters had great titles and were good divided. I must say the sympathies in this book tend to go one way, the way of feeling sorry for Tsar Nicholas. After reading the book I also was of the opinion that it was all the Tsarina's fault that all went wrong. But I'm also aware that a lot of things might also be someone's character or impression from other people (the Tsarina's haughtiness for example) and that this isn't something easily changed. But I do think that Tsar Nicholas must have done more wrong than we get to know (as if he was just an innocent bystander.) Things that he might have done wrong are so swiftly mentioned that it is easily to read over it and never really notice it. Or maybe the top of the Communist party was just pure evil. I guess I'll just have to read more books on the subject. What also is my impression that a lot of things you read are the impressions of the writer and might not necessarily be the truth, and as it is probably impossible, or near impossible, to ever find out (nothing ever documented, lead figures already dead) I guess we'll never know.Anyway, that doesn't mean that I don't think the shooting of the Tsar and his family is wrong, so wrong (also the way in how poorly it was done, was just horrible, gruesome and must have been terrifying.)