I remember seeing a made for TV movie, or perhaps it was Danielle Steel's Zoya that first piqued my interest in the Romanov family. Although I don't know too much about the dynasty, I love reading anything about royal families. The reviews on the outside of this book touted a history book that read like a "true crime thriller". I unfortunately, disagree. This book, heavily researched by Helen Rappaport truly reads like a text book, until Chapter 14. This is, however, the second to the last chapter of the book.
I hadn't realized that this book would report in great tedious detail every minute of the last days of the Romanovs and their captors. If I were more a scholar of Russian/ Soviet history, this would be an excellent read. I found myself skimming and scanning the pages in order to finish the book. It wasn't until the final pages that I began to become much more interested.
I found the aftermath of discovering the grave site and the subsequent research to prove the grave sites belong to the Romanov family a much more intriguing story. All in all, Rappaport's book is a good one, just not the story I happened to be looking for.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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