by Staton Rabin
Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter Kurth. Boston: Little, Brown. 1995.
The Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes. New York: Knopf. 1990.
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia, W. Bruce Lincoln. Boulder, Colo: Basic Books. 2000.
The Rasputin File, Edvard Radzinsky. Trans, by Judson Rosengrant. New York: Nan A. Talese. 2000.
The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin, Alex De Jonge. New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan. 1982. (Reprinted Barnes & Noble Books, 1993.)
Nicholas and Alexandra, Robert K. Massie. New York: Atheneum. 1967.
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Robert K. Massie. New York: Random House. 1995.
Nicholas II: The Imperial Family, Abris Publications, St. Petersburg, Peterhof. 2002.
Left Behind: Fourteen Months in Siberia During the Revolution, December 1917-February 1919, by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden (lady-in-waiting to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia).
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky. Trans, by Antonina W. Bouis. New York: Free Press. 2005.
“The Alexander Palace of Tsarskoye SeIo After the Romanovs,” lecture by Iraida Bott and Larisa Bardovskaya. The State Museum (Tsarskoye Selo), St. Petersburg. Access to paper courtesy of Ms. Bott, and Una Belau of Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2004.
There are a great many websites about Alexei Romanov, Rasputin, and the Russian royal family, where members and visitors can study these subjects—and debate issues such as whether Alexei or any members of his immediate family could have survived the assassination.
Some websites of interest include:
The Alexander Palace Time Machine http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/ This beautifully designed Web site also has a discussion forum.
Alexei’s Hemophilia: The Triangle Affair of Nicholas II, Alexandra, and Rasputin http://it.stlawu.edu/~rkreuzer/pcaron/alexisillness.html
The First Alexei Nicholaevich Romanov Web Page http://members.aol.com/Dangit0/Alexei/main.htm
Alexei Romanov Page http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9463/alexei.html
‡ The one exception is Alexei’s fourteenth birthday, which, in my story, the tsarevich believes will take place on July 30,1918, because from his perspective the Julian calendar was never replaced.
‡ ‡ and many others, of course, around the globe. About 1 in 5,000 males is born with hemophilia.
‡Those with mild cases of the disease might be treated with the synthetic hormone DDAVP, which stimulates the body’s own production of factor VIII.
