About the Book: The Romanovs
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of
the worlds surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the
worlds greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story
of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all
inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiores gripping chronicle
reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building,
overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild
extravagance, and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries
and poets. Written with dazzling literary flair,