Summary
Helen Rappaport: The Last Days of the Romanovs
The book The Last Days of the Romanovs covers the period of the short-term imprisonment of the Romanovs in that city, and all attention is focused on the last two weeks and on the heinous act of murder itself. On one side is a family that has lost all imperial features - they are now just parents and children who want to live peacefully - and on the other is the complex and chaotic machinery of the Bolshevik leadership. The book Poslednji dani Romanov stands out from similar works due to the profile of the murderers, which the author paints with short and morbidly realistic strokes. Against that terrible picture, world politics is just an echo, a delusion maintained by the lies of the new Russian rulers, and the truth is there, in the basement-dump, and in the cabinets of those who imperceptibly pulled the strings.
Helen Rappaport does not succumb to sensationalism for a moment; her works are strictly based on facts, measured in illustrating events, without a trace of distasteful bloodlust. Nevertheless, The Last Days of the Romanovs is in itself a chillingly realistic book that does not spare the reader, because it is impossible to present all the horror of what happened in the Ipatjev house in 1918 in any other way.
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