A Lifelong Passion. Nicolas and Alexandra. Their Own Story

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0297815202 Hardback Hardback. First Edition. A Lifelong Passion. Translations From Origin Documents by Darya Galy. The love affair of Nicolas, the last Tsar of Russia, and his wife Alix, a granddaughter of Queen Victora, was a lifelong passion with a tragic end. Just how deep the passion, how intimate the relationship, how tratic their deaths, only now becomes clear with the release of their privcate letters and diaries. The book draws exclusively on their own words - they always wrote to each other in English - as well as those of their family and individuals close to them. The result is an enthralling saga of one big, powerful, tightly-knit international family which included not only Nicolas and Alexandra, but also Kaiser Wilhelm and Queen Victoria, George V, the KIngs of Greece and Denmark and many others. Their lives and destinies, their rise and fall are deeply intertwined. As the story unfolds over a period of nearly forty years, a panarama emerges ofnot only love, passion and devotion, but also greed, cupidity, sexual intrigues, wrangling over money and power, homosexuality, hirrible death and ever-present doom. This book is revealing as history, poignant as a portrait of a marriage. Here are parents learning to cope with a son's debilitating illness, the fullest account yet of the influence of Rasputin, the war with Germany, and the rumblings of a revolution which was to destroy them all. And finally there are the heart-stopping accounts taken directly from the testimonies of the murderers of so many of the book's cast. The result is a turbulent and page-turning narrative of love, passion, doom and death. Illustrated. 667 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .