November 15, 2018 The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport Review by Karen Langley The fate of the last of the Romanov Tsars and his family has exerted a fascination over the public during…
October 13, 2016 Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport Reviewed by Rob Spence We seem to have a glut of popular historians at the moment. Simon Schama, Tom Holland, Peter Frankopan, Lara Feigel,…
April 15, 2014 Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport Reviewed by Harriet Devine On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The…