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A lifelong passion : Nicolas and Alexandra : their own story / edited by Sergei Mironenko and Andrei Maylunas ; translation from original documents by Darya Galy.

Author
  • Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia 1868-1918.
Other titles
  • Lifelong passion, Nicholas and Alexandra, their own story.
  • Lifelong passion, Nicholas & Alexandra, their own story.
  • A lifelong passion
Published
  • London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1996
Physical description
667 pages : illustrations, plates ; 25 cm
ISBN
  • 0297815202
  • 9780297815204
  • 0385486731
  • 9780385486736
Notes
  • Includes index.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject
Other names
Genre
  • Bibliography
  • Diaries.
  • Illustrated
  • text
Language
  • English
  • Russian

Summary

  • The love affair of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and his wife, Alexandra, a granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, is a tale of searing passion and inescapable tragedy. Just how deep the passion, how intimate the relationship, and how tragic the end only now becomes clear with the release of their letters to one another, the majority of which are published here for the first time. A Lifelong Passion draws heavily on the hitherto private correspondence of the last Tsar and Tsarina, and their passionate yearning for one another is heartbreakingly evident on every page. Through selections from the letters and diaries of their friends and contemporaries, we also meet the five Romanov children and their wily Swiss tutor; various royal relatives such as Queen Victoria and Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm; and several important members of the Russian court, including the duke who participated in the murder of Rasputin and describes it here in bloodcurdling detail. Tender love and bloody murder, imperial pomp and desperate intrigue all play their part in this harrowingly intimate account of the lives of Nicholas and Alexandra.
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University of Bath Library: Level 5 947.073 MAY
British Library: Lending Collection 96/34421
University of Cambridge Libraries: University Library: North Front, Floor 5 586:8.b.95.106
University of East Anglia Library: UEA Main Library. Floor 3: Main shelves - Normal loan DK253 MAY
University of Essex: Albert Sloman Library DK 258.N5
University of Exeter Library: Forum Library 947.08 NIC
University of Exeter Library: Forum Library 947.08 NIC
University of Leeds Library: Brotherton Library, Special Collections Leeds Russian Archive 1954
The London Library: History H. Nicholas II, Emp. of Russia
University of Manchester Library: Store (Main Library) .
National Library of Scotland: General Reading Room, Edinburgh (stored onsite) H4.97.941
National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: Contact the National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru PRINT 97MB8884
University of Oxford Libraries: St Antony's College Library DK 251.M
University of Oxford Libraries: Bodleian Library M98.D02153
University of Oxford Libraries: Magdalen College Library: Longwall Library 947.083 NIC MAY
Queen Mary University of London Library: Mile End Library DK251 NIC (ORDINARY) ORDINARY
University of Southampton Library: Hartley Library DK 258 MAY
University of Strathclyde Library: Standard Loan MLD D 947.0809 NIC/L
Trinity College Dublin Library: Santry Book Repository HL-196-194
UCL Library Services: UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies Library: SSEES Collection R.IX.d.14 NIC

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