“[A] superb background…. In these exciting, highly readable webpages, we meet up with Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic…; we go to the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of small Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered from the Bolsheviks in 1918.” -The Wall structure Street Journal

This is actually the tumultuous, heartrending, true story from the Romanovs-at once a romantic family portrait of Russia’s last royal family members and a about The Family members Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and nov Imperial Russia gripping accounts of its undoing. Using captivating photos and powerful initial person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Shed; The Lincolns) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia’s poor masses, making this an absolutely mesmerizing read as well as a perfect resource for getting together with Common Core criteria.

‘An exhilarating narrative history of a doomed and clueless family members and empire.’ -Jim Murphy, author of Newbery Honor Books An American Plague and The Great Fire

‘For readers who regard background as boring, Fleming’s extraordinary publication is evidence positive that, on the contrary, it really is endlessly interesting, absorbing as any novel, as well as the stuff of an altogether unforgettable reading encounter.’ -Booklist, Starred

‘Marrying the close face of Heiligman’s Charles and Emma with the politics and intrigue of Sheinkin’s Bomb, Fleming has outdone herself with this riveting work of narrative nonfiction that appeals to the imagination as much as the intellect.’ -The Horn Book, Starred

Winner of the Los Angeles Instances Book Award for Adolescent Adult Literature

Winner from the Boston Globe-Horn Reserve Award for non-fiction

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Reserve

A YALSA Superiority in non-fiction Award Finalist

Winner from the Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction