After reading the first of the four novels I am starting to realize that the death of the last Imperial Family of Russia was not how I thought it was. There were so many political parties that had some say in what happened to this one family. Whether or not the German's wanted the family for collateral or the US to not attack, so many events were involved over the fate of this family. During all of the political uproar the Imperial family was left in the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg left essentially to sit and wait for their fate. The next novel I am planning to read, The Flight of the Romanov's, addresses the Romanov family history. With this history I hope that I will have a better understanding as to how Nicholas the II could have lost the contact to his people, especially concerning the crucial years surrounding his abdication in the 1910's, that was so crucial for Tsar. The neat part about this book that will be very interesting, is that it is written from first hand accounts from relatives of the royal family that were able to escape either from Ekaterinburg or Petrograd. The sources that make up this book also include oral history's, experts on Russian history, and the written accounts from some of the key players within the Bolshevik ranks.
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