The File on the Tsar

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780752849379

Автор

Издатель Orion Books

Вес 340 гр

Год выпуска 2009

What really became of Russia's last Tsar and his family? The world was told they were butchered in the alleged "cellar massacre" at Ekaterinburg in 1918. Yet senior diplomats and journalists did not believe it. And the longest court case of the twentieth century failed to explode Anna Anderson's claim to be the Tsar's youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia. Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold followed a trail that led from London to Moscow, Tokyo and Washington. Persistence paid off when they discovered suppressed evidence in a long-lost official dossier - "The File on the Tsar". It suggests the public were fed a lie, that the Tsarina and her daughters survived for months longer than previously believed - as pawns in an international power game involving Lenin, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm, the British Royal Family and British Intelligence. The much-trumpeted revelation that the family's bones had been found, as recently as 1995, may not, after all, be the final solution to the...