The Lost Fortune of the Tsars

by William Clarke

Book Overview

When World War I broke out in 1914, Russia's Romanov dynasty was among the world's richest families. Yet ever since the Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312131186
• ISBN13: 9780312131180
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A fascinating story of vanished wealth and history

So much of the fascination the Russian Tsars still hold for us today is connected with their great wealth and fabulous possessions. William Clarke's book is a detailed examination of the sources of the property of the House of Romanov before World War I and of its disposition and possible whereabouts today. In the process of his search Clarke also proved and disproved several theories as to the fate of the wealth, clearing some notable persons of some unsavory accusations