The Life and Death of Nicholas and Alexandra - Annotated

This book is built on the original work 'My Empress' by Maria Mouchanow and Yakov Yurovsky's account of the execution of the Russian Imperial Royal Family. Maria Mouchanow's work has been re-edited and updated and Yakov Yurovsky's account has been largely rewritten. Many public domain photographs have been added to the book, not available in the original works.



For many, the story of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, the last Sovereigns of all the Russias, was one of the greatest love stories in history. For others it was a relationship doomed to tragedy from the day of their coronation to the day of their deaths.



They were young, they were attractive, they were immeasurably rich and they had absolute power in their country, until everything began to crumble around them.



Maria Mouchanow gives her intimate account of the family as one disaster after another befalls them through the eyes of someone who shared in their lives continuously from the day of their marriage right through to the day of their exile to Siberia over twenty years later, and her insights, while often shocking, have the solid ring of truth.



This is an account of the private lives of the last Russian Imperial Family as has never been told before or since.