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Secret Lives Of The Tsars: Three Centuries Of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, And Madness From Romanov Russia (2014)

by Michael Farquhar(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0812979052 (ISBN13: 9780812979053)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

review 1: This book was mainly helpful to me in painting a timeline of when the various tsars and tsarinas ruled. I have read quite a bit about them individually, but this books gave a good timeline of their reigns and also helped me piece together the complex family trees (is it too much to ask for some of them to have different names?!). It's a quick read, probably not recommended for serious historians, but anyone who wants a brief overview of Imperial Russia should pick it up.
review 2: This book is about all of the Romanov Tsar's, Emperors and Empresses. The first two thirds of the book focuses on the violence including punishments to citizens and deaths of the royal family and their sexual escapades. I was leaning towards two to two and a half stars til the last th... moreird of the book. It was like reading the Enquirer about historical figures. There was not a lot of details, especially related to the accomplishments of some of these figures. I was particularly disappointed with the lack of information about Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. The book goes into much greater detail about the last of the Romanov's Nicholas II and Alexandra (of course, Rasputin is featured heavily in these chapters. Every ruler has a short chapter dedicated to them with the exception of the last tsar. These chapters were interesting but I would have liked for the author to go into greater detail about some of the other Romanov's. less

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