About the Book: The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
the acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas IIs life and
reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.
A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense.
His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsars life;
brief, sharp, but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time.
Catherine Merridale, Observer In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All
the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an