Virginia Rounding

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      ,The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russiaâ€”A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped theÂ  events that engulfed them.,
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    ,There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his wife the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. On one hand, they are venerated as saints, innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins, and on the other they are impugned as the unwitting harbingers of revolution and imperial collapse, blamed for all the ills that befell the Russian people in the 20th century.Â Theirs was also a tragic love story; for whatever else can be said of them, there can be no doubt that Alix and Nicky adored one another.Â Soon after their engagement, Alix wrote in her fiancÃ©â€™s diary: â€œEver true and ever loving, faithful, pure and strong as deathâ€â€”words which met their fulfillment twenty-four years later in a blood-spattered cellar in Ekaterinburg.,
    ,ThroughÂ the letters and diaries written by the couple and by those around them, Virginia Rounding presents an intimate, penetrating, and fresh portrayal of these two complex figures and of their passionâ€”their love and their suffering.Â She explores the nature and possible causes of the Empressâ€™s ill health, and examines in depth the enigmatic triangular relationship between Nicky, Alix and their â€˜favourite,â€™ Ania Vyrubova, protÃ©gÃ©e of the infamous Rasputin, extracting the meaning from words left unsaid, from hints and innuendoes..,
    ,The story of Alix and Nicky, of their four daughters known collectively as â€˜OTMAâ€™ and of their hemophiliac little boy Alexei, is endlessly fascinating, and Rounding makes these characters come alive, presenting them in all their human dimensionsÂ and expertly leading the reader into their vanished world.,
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Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina