The family romanov book6/30/2023 Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming ( Amelia Lost The Lincolns) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia's poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing read as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs-at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” - The Wall Street Journal In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic.
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