THE ROMANOVS

by Ian Grey ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1970

Mr. Grey is the author of two standard presentation-popularizations of Russian history: Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great. The present work is on a par with Grey's earlier volumes. With a fluency of expression which disguises, though it does not conceal, the most careful scholarship, he tells the story of the dynasty which forged the vast Empire of All the Russias and held it together for three centuries--a dynasty which, nonetheless, comprised as many fools as it did geniuses, and as many bloody tyrants as it did benevolent despots. Since all the Romanovs, good and bad, were undoubted autocrats, their history is, to a large extent, that of Russia itself from the beginning of the seventeenth century until well into the twentieth--a circumstance of which Grey takes advantage to describe the social and intellectual as well as the political trends of those centuries. Enhanced by an abundance of very helpful notes and interesting illustrations, this work is the equal in many respects, and superior in some, to the most recent work on the subject, Bergamini's Tragic Dynasty (1969).

Pub Date: May 1, 1970

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION