Russia Under Three Tsars

REDISCOVERED: EYEWITNESS HISTORY Opening with an intimate dramatic account of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 this long-lost history describes the personalities and actions of the last tsars during the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. Glittering royals politicians military officers scoundrels and anarchists all walk across these pages as they did in life during the last years of the tsars.Alexander II Alexander III and the last tsar--the ill-fated Nicholas II--each attempted to forestall the forces of revolution. This eyewitness history is based on exclusive access to the original manuscript memoirs of Count Loris-Melikov Tsar Alexander IIs chief minister and by the authors personal experience in Tsar Nicholas IIs government as Secretary-in-Chief of the Duma.Appendix: Interview with Count Leo Tolstoy Edited and with an introduction by Irene Vartanoff