BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. 101 illustrations. WITH NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED PERSONAL REMINISCENCES BY: the Family of Vasily Filatov. TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY: Marian Schwartz and Antonina W. Bouis. ON THE FRONT COVER: The young Tsarevich Alexei Romanov and the man known as Vasily Filatov. Were they the same person? CONTENTS: From the Russian Publisher; The Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II; In Captivity (Letter of Dr. Botkin); The Execution (Accounts of the Executioners); The Search (Report by Dr. William R. Maples); The Rescue of Tsarevich Alexei; The End of the Romanovs?; Personal Reminiscences by the Family of Vasily Filatov; Appendix; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; Photograph Credits. SYNOPSIS: Vasily Filatov, a village teacher who lived under the harsh censorship and control of the Soviet Union, had an extraordinary knowledge of the private life of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Inexplicably, he also knew top-secret details surrounding the 1918 execution of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution. Then, in the 1980s, when Soviet archives were finally opened to the public during perestroika, the seemingly incredible stories Vasily Filatov had told his family were revealed to the world as historical fact. How did he know? - and - The Russian Romanov dynasty came to an abrupt end on the night of July 17, 1918, when the imperial family was executed by the Bolsheviks. Or did it? Compelling new evidence reveals that Tsarevich Alexei, the fourteen-year-old son of Nicholas II and Alexandra and heir to the Russian throne, escaped the bloodshed and was adopted by a peasant family. Reconstructing the fascinating historic events of the Russian Revolution, The Escape of Alexei tells the horrifying story of the brutal execution, and the means by which the boy managed to escape death. Bungling by Bolshevik soldiers led to complete chaos: Young Alexei - wounded and unconscious - was still alive when he was loaded onto the back of a truck with the corpses of his murdered family. He fled into the woods and found his way to a nearby village. There his world turned upside down. Russia's heir to the throne grew up under the name of Vasily Filatov. He became an apprentice shoemaker and eventually a high-school geography teacher. In this extraordinary volume, three respected scientists provide a convincing, thorough account of how the executioners covered up the fact that the body of the heir to the throne was missing. Drawing on official records and documents from Russian archives and the grisly personal accounts of soldiers who took part in the execution, the authors offer compelling evidence that Alexei Romanov and Vasily Filatov were the same person. Filatov died in 1988. Now his wife and children have brought his story to the world. Their intimate reminiscences of the remarkable man they knew as husband and father bring this astonishing tale to life. Personal photographs throughout the book illustrate the striking physical resemblances between members of the Romanov and Filatov families. Vadim Petrov, a professor, lawyer, and forensic scientist, worked for many years in the Bureau of Forensics of the Leningrad Regional Health Department. He holds a law degree from Leningrad State University and is the author of numerous books on the methodology of establishing identity from photographs. Igor Lysenko is a nuclear physicist as well as a graduate of the Theological Academy in St. Petersburg. He works with the Commission for the Canonization of Saints of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. Georgy Egorov holds a Ph.D. in engineering and is an expert on systematic forensic investigations. He is the author of over 200 scholarly works including many monographs. Size: 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall.

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Escape of Alexei son of Tsar Nicholas II What Happened the Night the Romanov Family Was Executed, The

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Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York

Fecha de publicaci�n

1998

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Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0810932776

ISBN 13

9780810932777

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Hard Cover

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First Edition 1st Printing

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Very Good

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Very Good

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Book by Lysenko Igor Egorov Georgy Petrov Vadim Schwartz M

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