From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women 1847-1928

"A richly detailed portrait of four women, whom marriage and blood put at the center of European history." —Richmond Times-Dispatch

This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women.

From the early 1850s until the late 1920s Russia underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the chaos of revolution and the beginn...