The Last Days of the Romanovs

For nearly four-hundred years the Romanovs had ruled Russia. Their empire stretched from the borders of Poland to the Sea of Japan. Soon their world would come crashing down. Time was running out. . . Well into the third year of World War I, discontent is deep in Russia. People throughout the country complain of hunger. While the war dead are buried in nameless graves, the wounded are carried home from the fronts in trains and carts. Mother Russia is in agony. But for the Imperial family, the Tsar, Nicholas, his German- born wife. Tsarina Alexandra and their five children, Tatiana, Olga, Marie, Anastasia and Alexei, there are happier memories: sunlit days in the Crimea, photographs taken in Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo. Looking through an album, Tatiana noted that they had all grown, they were never apart, they had always shared their secrets . . . What are the secrets which will topple an empire? Trace the Romanovs' fall from kings to pawns and watch history unravel as Vasily, a fourteen-year-old journalist working for a revolutionary paper, accompanies the Romanovs step for step on their fateful journey into exile in Siberia - a bloody path only Rasputin could foresee.