Books from the Backlog, hosted by Carole's Random Life in Books, is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your shelf unread.
I am featuring books in the order that they were added to my Goodreads To-Read shelf, so sometimes there will be a couple weeks in a row of books on the same topic.
Neglected Book of the Week
Why did I add The Romanovs: The Final Chapter to my TBR?
Because no matter how much I read, and how much I know, I will still never understand how the senseless murders of the entire family was allowed to happen. I mean, realistically I know why, but that doesn't mean I accept it.
Have you read this book, or is it somewhere on your TBR? If you've read it, would you recommend it to others?
Happy Reading!
Sarah
I really should read more history. I don't want to accept that this happened either. This sounds like a great read. I hope you enjoy it, Sarah!
ReplyDeleteYou know I will always hook you up with great history books! Their children were just so young. I understand the anger directed at Nicholas and Alexandra, but such a horrific assassination is hard to stomach. And to murder their servants as well, it's all so awful.
DeleteI can't grasp the atrocity either and I think that's why I grasp at the 'lost Romanov princess' angle when it shows up in books.
ReplyDeleteSame. Although logically there's no way she could have survived and I believe at this point evidence shows all the remains accounted for? I am not certain of this though, as stories have changed so often since the Cold War ended. I'd like to think Anastasia did, or any of them even, but I think it is more likely none did.
Deletei feel the same way, yet i am fascinated by the villains
ReplyDeleteI do want to know more about the men specifically who carried out the murders, though it would be difficult to find extensive information on them I suppose. There's some information, but not a lot. As for the wider scope of the revolution, that is a part of the story I have not delved deeply into yet.
DeleteI love anything Romanov. I don't know why. I haven't heard of this one but I think I'll be adding it to my TBR.
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I do too. I think it is the children that get me - even though the older sisters weren't technically children anymore. Even so, there were opportunities for others to help, to get the family to safety, and because others refused to step up, they were murdered.
DeleteEssentially, as far as I'm aware, they were executed because they were a threat to the Revolution especially as the White forces (as opposed to the Red) where on the rise just before the order went out to kill them. Plus there was a persistent rumour that a rescue plan was being arranged. The nail in that coffin was the British King refusing to have the Romanov's in Britain if they did escape.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is pretty much true. If George V would've acted, the family could have been saved - possibly even before they were actually in custody, and almost certainly before they were finally taken to Ekaterinburg.
DeleteTheir murder really does seem senseless. As you said, I know the reasoning behind it, but it just is another display of how cruel and ruthless humans can be. I would definitely be interested in reading this. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteAnd thinking too of their servants murdered with them. There are those who then say, "Well what about the millions of Russian citizens who died of starvation or were killed" and that is also a travesty. I find it is not hard to care about all involved, and especially when one thinks of the grave missteps that Nicholas made. I don't think he was ever fully prepared to be Czar, and was too indecisive. Still, that should not have cost his children their lives.
DeleteI find the Romanovs fascinating. That entire period of history is whacked. I loved studying it at school.
ReplyDeleteIt is one I am intensely interested in too, at least this specific aspect. I am trying to get more into Russian history in general, but it is like my brain automatically shuts off no matter what country I am reading about, when things start getting too modern - so basically by the beginning of the 1700s.
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