{"product_id":"alix-and-nicky-9781250022196","title":"Alix and Nicky","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlix \u0026amp; Nicky \u003ci\u003etells the dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia-A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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. 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. Soon after their engagement, Alix wrote in her fianc 's diary: \"Ever true and ever loving, faithful, pure and strong as death\"-words which met their fulfillment twenty-four years later in a blood-spattered cellar in Ekaterinburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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 passion-their love and their suffering. She explores the nature and possible causes of the Empress's ill health, and examines in depth the enigmatic triangular relationship between Nicky, Alix and their 'favourite, ' Ania Vyrubova, prot g e of the infamous Rasputin, extracting the meaning from words left unsaid, from hints and innuendoes..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of Alix and Nicky, of their four daughters known collectively as 'OTMA' and of their hemophiliac little boy Alexei, is endlessly fascinating, and Rounding makes these characters come alive, presenting them in all their human dimensions and expertly leading the reader into their vanished world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250022196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.50w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2013 pg. 82\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Virginia Rounding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38017994686645,"sku":"9781250022196","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_57132b96-1f3e-403b-8f3a-c8d1e9afc203.jpg?v=1609167944","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alix-and-nicky-9781250022196","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}