Virginia Rounding: 3 books
Alix and Nicky
The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them.
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Catherine the Great
Love, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted...
The Burning Time
Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more...