The family Romanov : murder, rebellion & the fall of Imperial Russia / Candace Fleming.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2014]Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: 292 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Teenagers
ISBN:
  • 9780375867828
  • 0375867821
  • 9780375967825
  • 0375967826
  • 9780605829022
  • 0605829020
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 947.08/30922 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DK258 .F5725 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Before you begin -- Russia 1903 -- Beyond the palace gates : peasant turned worker -- Before the storm -- "I dreamed that I was loved" -- Beyond the palace gates : a peasant boyhood -- "What a disappointment!" -- Beyond the palace gates : lullabies for peasant babies -- "A small family circle" -- Beyond the palace gates : another family circle -- Dark clouds gathering -- The year of nightmares -- Lenin, the Duma, and a mystic named Rasputin -- Beyond the palace gates : house no. 13 -- "Pig and filth" and family fun -- Beyond the palace gates : an occupation for workers' daughters -- Gathering clouds -- Three centuries of Romanovs -- Beyond the palace gates : a different kind of education for a different kind of boy -- The storm breaks -- "My God! My God! What madness!" -- In defense of mother Russia -- Beyond the palace gates : Vasily's diary -- The reign of Rasputin -- It all comes tumbling down -- Beyond the palace gates : molecule in a storm -- "Ye tyrants quake, your day is over" -- Beyond the palace gates : "ye tyrants quake, your day is over" -- Final days -- "Survivors of a shipwreck" -- Beyond the palace gates : the "Tsar's surprise party" -- Into Siberia -- Beyond the palace gates : swarming the palace -- The house of special purpose -- Deadly intent -- "The world will never know what has become of them" -- Beyond the palace gates : life under Lenin.
Awards:
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Honor Book (2015); YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Finalist (2015)
  • Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Award, 2015
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel, 2014
  • NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, 2015
  • YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, 2015
Summary: When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants and urban workers -- and their eventual uprising -- Fleming draws a poignant portrait, complete with period photographs and primary source material.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-265) and index.

Before you begin -- Russia 1903 -- Beyond the palace gates : peasant turned worker -- Before the storm -- "I dreamed that I was loved" -- Beyond the palace gates : a peasant boyhood -- "What a disappointment!" -- Beyond the palace gates : lullabies for peasant babies -- "A small family circle" -- Beyond the palace gates : another family circle -- Dark clouds gathering -- The year of nightmares -- Lenin, the Duma, and a mystic named Rasputin -- Beyond the palace gates : house no. 13 -- "Pig and filth" and family fun -- Beyond the palace gates : an occupation for workers' daughters -- Gathering clouds -- Three centuries of Romanovs -- Beyond the palace gates : a different kind of education for a different kind of boy -- The storm breaks -- "My God! My God! What madness!" -- In defense of mother Russia -- Beyond the palace gates : Vasily's diary -- The reign of Rasputin -- It all comes tumbling down -- Beyond the palace gates : molecule in a storm -- "Ye tyrants quake, your day is over" -- Beyond the palace gates : "ye tyrants quake, your day is over" -- Final days -- "Survivors of a shipwreck" -- Beyond the palace gates : the "Tsar's surprise party" -- Into Siberia -- Beyond the palace gates : swarming the palace -- The house of special purpose -- Deadly intent -- "The world will never know what has become of them" -- Beyond the palace gates : life under Lenin.

When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants and urban workers -- and their eventual uprising -- Fleming draws a poignant portrait, complete with period photographs and primary source material.

Ages 12-17.

950 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader 7.2.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Honor Book (2015); YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Finalist (2015)

Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Award, 2015

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel, 2014

NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, 2015

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, 2015

Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.2 12 167384.

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