A review by mindsplinters
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar

3.0

Like all of his books, this is a fairly easy read and he does a pretty good job of separating all of the endless Maries and Ivans and Peters and Alexanders and Catherines. It presents the good and bad of all parties, the beautiful and ugly. It's more than a little sobering to realize how some lives were destroyed over just one or two poor decisions.