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Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport (view source)
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The city of Ekaterinburg was once regarded as imperial Russia's gateway to the east. In 1918 it became symbolic with one of the most savage executions, or might be one say liquidations, ever recorded in history – the cold-blooded annihilation of the former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, their children, the last remaining servants who had stayed with them in captivity, and their pet dogs.
This grim story has been told many times before. But this is the first book I have come across which does so in such detail. Many of you are probably as familiar with the bare outlines of what happened soon after midnight on 17 July 1918 as you are with the sinking of the Titanic or the assassination of President Kennedy, so that's the danger of spoilers herewith out of the way.