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

3.0

This book was mainly helpful to me in painting a timeline of when the various tsars and tsarinas ruled. I have read quite a bit about them individually, but this books gave a good timeline of their reigns and also helped me piece together the complex family trees (is it too much to ask for some of them to have different names?!). It's a quick read, probably not recommended for serious historians, but anyone who wants a brief overview of Imperial Russia should pick it up.