A review by whatsnonfiction
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky

5.0

It's written in a really interesting, whimsical style - an unusual and welcome difference from other history type books. The author digs through a ton of old diaries and letters and words scratched on windows and fragments of poems and uses it all to create amazing pictures of the family, their close friends and advisors, their captors and murderers, and the Russia of the time. The entire book is very compelling, and somehow has the effect of seeming both completely comprehensive and making you want to read everything else on the subject.