A gripping narrative history of Russia's imperial dynasty.
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of a number of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the BBA History Book of the Year Prize; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in China; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He is also the author of WRITTEN IN HISTORY: LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and VOICES OF HISTORY: SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
Vast and dazzling ... utterly compelling from start to finish - SUNDAY TIMEMontefiore has a great novelist's eye for human detail, a great journalist's nose for human frailty and a great historian's touch when it comes to selecting just the right primary source to bring the past alive. ... Judicious, nuanced, balanced and sensitive ... When history is written this way one can never have too much - THE TIMESRead the book from cover to cover. There is never a dull page - DAILY TELEGRAPH
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