The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

New York: Random House - A U. S. Camera Book, 1995. First Edition Second Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6 1/2" X 9 1/4. Lamberr, J. K. - Book Design. 308 Pages Indexed. In 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinberg, Siberia. Were these the remains of the last tsar and his family, murdered over 70 years before? Pulitzer Prize winner Massie now answers this question, going back to the horrifying moments of the slaughter, and describing in detail the ultimately successful efforts in post-communist Russia to discover the truth of photos. Contents in 20 Chapters: Down Twenty-three Steps, Approved By Moscow, Let Me Find Nothing, A Character from Gogol, Secretary Baker, Curious About Death, The Ekaterinbvurg Conference, At the Frontiers of Knowledge, Dr. Maples Versus Dr. Gill, Ekaterinburg Confronts Its Past, Investigator Soloviev, Burying the Tsar, The Imposters, The Claimant, A Matter of Family Honor, These People Have No Standing, As Good as the People Using It, The Cleverest of the Four Children, The Romanov Emigres and Seventy-eight Days.