The Home of the Last Tsar - Romanov and Russian History

Alexander Palace Time Machine - Book Finder

Romanov Family Album
by Robert Massie & Marilyn Swezey

127pages

Published: 1982

Genre: Photo album

Publisher: Vendome Press

Languages: English

ISBN Hardcover: 0865650195

ISBN Softcover: No softcover edition available

Print Status: out of print

Romanov Family Album

description:

Photos chosen from the Yale University Beinicke Collection, accompanied by excerpts form the memoirs of Anna Vyrubova. Almost entirely informal photos.

unique features:

Trick question – see IMO section below.

similar to:

Nicholas II: The Imperial Family
Nicholas & Alexandra: The Family Albums
Private World of the Last Tsar: In the Note and Photographs of General Count Alexander Grabbe

in my opinion:

Considered unnecessary by some – EVERYTHING in the book, and MUCH MORE is available online.Vyrubova’s complete memoirs: http://www.alexanderpalace.org/russiancourt/ the complete Bienicke albums: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/romanov_album.htm

please let us know if you have discovered other sources for this book

this book profile was written by Sarah Miller

Book Finder

< prevnext >

Archangels - Bema Vault of Hagia Sophia

There are two archangels in the bema of Hagia Sophia, of one only the feet nd the tips of the wings survive, the other is almost fully preserved

Virgin and Child in the Apse of Hagia Sophia

Here's a page dedicated to this famous mosaic in the apse sem-dome of the great cathedral church of old Byzantium.  It dates from the original redecoration of the church after iconoclasm ended.

Jewels of the Romanovs
Charles Cameron - Imperial Architect
Lost Splendor by Felix Yussupov