A review by gabmc
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

3.0

Conspiracy theories abound on whether all the Romanovs were killed on the night of July 16 1918. This book contains amazing research, including excerpts of letters from the royal family as they spent their final days under house arrest in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The book is told from the perspective of the kitchen boy, Leonka, who was in captivity with the Romanovs. Eight decades after that fateful night in 1918, Leonka himself dies. He leaves behind a recording of his life story for his grand-daughter and she must decide what to do with his legacy. I really enjoyed this book - the peek into the lives of the Romanov family in their last days was beautifully told.