The Romanov Family Album

By Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey

Book Overview

Copyright 1982 in Great Britain, printed and bound in Italy This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865650195
• ISBN13: 9780865650190
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Vendome Pr
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I love this book

So many pictures of the Tsar and his family many made by the Tsar and his family. Very intersting book and a great addition to my collection of Romonoff Books.

the romamov family album

I Purchased this book for my grandaughter who is very interested in history, she loves it. It was easy to find and easy to order.Delivery was fast.

Wow.

Lovely photographs. I have seen many of these before at Yale's Digital Beinecke Library, but some are new to me. It shows Nicholas II not as an autocrat or the "tyrant" historians say he was--it shows him as a kind man who adored the world he knew, that of his wife, smiling beautiful girls and his happy, albeit ill, son.

A fascinating photo collection

"The Romanov Family Album" is probably one of the earlier photo collections on the last imperial family of Russia. The photographs come from the photo albums of Ania Vyrubova, Empress Aleksandra's closest friend; the albums are now among the collections in Beinecke Library at Yale University. Most of the pictures are of the family's annual summer trips to the Crimea and through the fjords of Finland, with a fair smattering of the family during World War I and a few photographs of the imperial family in captivity at Tobolsk. Numerous lengthy excerpts from Ania Vyrubova's chatty memoirs add some entertaining color. An introduction by Robert Massie gives a brief (and interesting) history of how the albums ended up with Yale. On the whole this is a very interesting book. The main flaw is that it's very difficult to find.