The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times ruling a sixth of the world's
surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire?
And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas some
touched by genius some by madness but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition.
Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless
empire-building overshadowed by palace conspiracy family rivalries sexual decadence and wild
extravagance and peopled by a cast of adventurers courtesans revolutionaries and poets.
Written with dazzling literary flair drawing on new archival research THE ROMANOVS is at once
an enthralling chronicle of triumph and tragedy love and death a universal study of power
and an essential portrait of the empire that still defines Russia today.
