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In 1917 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, was executed by revolutionaries. Now, in response to the collapse of the country's economy, the people have voted to instate a new Tsar, one who will be chosen from the descendents of Nicholas II. But a powerful group of Western businessmen want to make sure he is a candidate they can control, and hire African-American lawyer Miles Lord, with his knowledge of Russian language and history, to check the background of their chosen man. Miles is thrilled with his assignment...until he becomes the target of an assassination attempt, and must run for his life, guided by a cryptic phrase penned by Rasputin, a bizarre prophecy that the Tsar will return to the throne and that Miles himself will see to it.… (més)
Cuando en 1991 se inhuman los restos del Zar y de su familia, asesinados en 1918, se descubre que faltan dos cadáveres. El abogado Miles Lord deberá investigar qué ocurrió aquel 16 de julio de 1918. Su única pista: un críptico mensaje de Rasputín anunciando que aquel cruento episodio no será el último en la leyenda de los Romanov...
Quick summer read. If you are a fan of "The DaVinci Code" I'd suggest you try this one also. Virtually the same story as DaVinci Code with the missing Romanov kids (Nicholas Romanov was the last Tsar of Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution) taking the place of Mary Magdalene and the Russian mafia taking the place of the church. ( )
This was a pretty good speculative historical fiction story. It had two story-lines, one modern and one in the past. The historical story, that of the doomed Romanov family, was not exactly an original premise, but the modern story was one I had not come across before. It made a quick, enjoyable read, one that I finished in under five hours. ( )
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Russia -- a country in which things that just don't happen happen. --Peter the Great
A year shall come of Russia's blackest dread; Then will the crown fall from the royal head, the throne of tsars will perish in the mud, The food of many will be death and blood. -- Mikhail Lermontov (1830)
Russia: mysterious dark continent, "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" in Winston Churchill's phrase, remote, inaccessible to foreigners, inexplicable even to natives. That is the myth, encouraged by Russians themselves, who preferthat no one discover who they really are and how they really live. --Robert Kaiser, Russia: The People and the Power(1984)
For all its trials, for all its mistakes, the story of Russia at the end of the [twentieth] century must be counted as a kind of revival, a resurrection. --David Remnick, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia (1997)
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Alexandra, Empress of all Russia, turned from her bedside vigil as the door swung open, the first time in hours her gaze had been diverted from the pitiful child lying prone beneath the sheets.
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In 1917 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, was executed by revolutionaries. Now, in response to the collapse of the country's economy, the people have voted to instate a new Tsar, one who will be chosen from the descendents of Nicholas II. But a powerful group of Western businessmen want to make sure he is a candidate they can control, and hire African-American lawyer Miles Lord, with his knowledge of Russian language and history, to check the background of their chosen man. Miles is thrilled with his assignment...until he becomes the target of an assassination attempt, and must run for his life, guided by a cryptic phrase penned by Rasputin, a bizarre prophecy that the Tsar will return to the throne and that Miles himself will see to it.
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