Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy,

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

â€œMichael Farquhar doesnâ€™t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwinâ€™s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.â€â€”Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist
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Scandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the worldâ€™s most engaging royal historian chronicles the worldâ€™s most fascinating imperial dynasty: the Romanovs, whose three-hundred-year reign was remarkable for its shocking violence, spectacular excess, and unimaginable venality. In this incredibly entertaining history, Michael Farquhar collects the best, most captivating true tales of Romanov iniquity. We meet Catherine the Great, with her endless parade of virile young lovers (none of them of the equine variety); her unhinged son, Paul I, who ordered the bones of one of his motherâ€™s paramours dug out of its grave and tossed into a gorge; and Grigori Rasputin, the â€œMad Monk,â€ whose mesmeric domination of the last of the Romanov tsars helped lead to the monarchyâ€™s undoing. From Peter the Greatâ€™s penchant for personally beheading his recalcitrant subjects (he kept the severed head of one of his mistresses pickled in alcohol) to Nicholas and Alexandraâ€™s brutal demise at the hands of the Bolsheviks, Secret Lives of the Tsars captures all the splendor and infamy that was Imperial Russia.
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Praise for Michael Farquharâ€™s Behind the Palace Doors
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â€œ[A] rollicking account of kings and queens gone wild.â€â€”People
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â€œFarquharâ€™s style is a breezy pleasure throughout.â€â€”Publishers Weekly
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â€œA terrifically accessible history.â€â€”Kirkus ReviewsÂ
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-07-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-07-08
Format	Kindle eBook

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

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