Rise and Fall of the Romanovs

Table of contents

• The Romanov Dynasty - Genealogical Table 2
• Title Page 3
• Preface 5
• Table of Contents 7
• Part I: - The Romanov Dynasty 9
• 1 - The Romanov Ascendancy 11
• 3 - The Reign of Alexis, 1645-76 15
• 4 - The Reign of Peter I. 1682-1725 33
• 6 - The Reign of Catherine II, 1762-96 46
• 7 - The Reign of Paul I, 1796-1801 66
• 8 - The Reign of Alexander I, 1801-25 72
• 9 - The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825-55 79
• 10 - The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81 101
• 11 - The Reign of Alexander III, 1881-94 116
• Part II: - Readings 137
• Reading No. 1 - Klyuchevsky on Reasons for Election of the Romanov Candidate 139
• Reading No. 2 - Alexis, Second Tsar of the Romanov LIne 142
• Reading No. 3 - Peter's Journey to England in 1698 144
• Reading No. 5 - Manstein on the Events of 1727-44 145
• Reading No. 6 - Bain's Account of Elizabeth 150
• Reading No. 8 - Catherine II on the End of Her Deposed Husband 152
• Reading No. 9 - Catherine II Announces Her Accession to the Imperial Throne 155
• Reading No. 10 - Czartoryski on the Education of Alexander 157
• Reading No. 11 - Documents on the Interregnum 161
• Reading No. 13 - Samson-Himmerlstierna's Sketch of Alexander III 167
• Reading No. 14 - Nicholas II Addresses the Nobility and the Zemtsvos, 1895 169
• Reading No. 16 - Extract from An Address of the Minister to the Tsar 171
• Reading No. 17 - Extract from A Letter of the Empress to Nicholas II 172
• Reading No. 18 - Purishkevich Describes the Plot Against Rasputin 174
• Reading No. 20 - Text of Nicholas II's Abdication 176
• The Grand Duke Michael's Manifesto, March 16, 1917 Reading No. 21 180
• Reading No. 22 - Trotsky on the End of the Royal Family at Ekaterinburg 181
• A Selected Bibliography 184
• Index 187

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