Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, this biography of Alexandra, the last tsarina, explores: her childhood bereavement; her long struggle to attain her romantic goal of marriage to Nicholas; the anguish of her pathological shyness; the struggles with her in-laws; a false pregnancy; her increasing eccentricities as she became more preoccupied with matters of faith; and her growing dependence on a series of occult mentors, the most notorious of whom was Rasputin.
- ISBN10 0312253079
- ISBN13 9780312253073
- Publish Date 1 December 2002
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 1 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 372
- Language English