The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345406408)

A "masterful" (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great

"Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated for more than sixty years in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia?

The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.

Author: Robert K. Massie
ISBN-10: 0345406400
ISBN-13: 9780345406408
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1996
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.51w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/12/1997 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 09/23/1996