“In Search of the Romanovs: A Family’s Quest to Solve One of History’s Most Brutal Crimes” by Peter Sarandinaki, Potomac Books, 304 pages, $39.95. In 1918, Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Empress ...
The Romanov family rose to imperial power in Russia in the early 1600s, its rule passed down for more than 300 years until the compounding crises of World War I, political turmoil and public pushback ...