“The Last Romanovs: Archival and Museum Discoveries in Great Britain and Russia”, London, Pindar Press, 2018, 120 pages
£15 (payable to GDERS, contact our Treasurer anna.scriven@yahoo.com for details)
This book was produced by the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Romanov Society, UK in the end of 2018 and presented the proceedings of the international symposium under same title which took place at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park in June 2017. The book was sold off quickly without being properly advertised. Responding to the demand from the readers we are offering an electronic version of this book (in Kindle and ePub formats).
The Symposium was a first attempt to bring together British and Russian historians, royal biographers, museum and archival specialists united by their deep knowledge of the Romanov – Windsor relationship and the period of the Nicholas II Reign – end of 19th and beginning of 20th centuries. The wider historic context was presented as well. The conference was carefully planned to feed the interest of wider audiences in personal stories of the last Tsar and his family and Grand Duchess Elizabeth, canonised as Martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church and closely related to the British queens and kings – Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII and King George V.
The articles will interest equally a researcher, because they are full of rare facts and documents, and an ordinary reader with their extraordinary human stories of heroism, charity, tragedy and glory. The book contains over hundred of colour illustrations and it was designed as an album which can be given to anybody as a valued present.
The contributors to this volume are well known royal biographers Coryne Hall and Charlotte Zeepvat and Russian writer and art historian Dr Dmitry Grishin; the leading curators of museums in Russia and UK: Stephan Patterson (Royal Collection Trust), Michael Hunter (Osborne House), Dr Inessa Slunkova (former Moscow Kremlin Museum specialist, presently attached to the Russian Academy of Arts), Nikolai Misko and Marina Falaleeva (The State Historical Museum); archival specialist Dr Olga Kopylova (The State Archives of the Russian Federation), university lecturers Dr Andrey Posternak, Dr Elena Kozlovtseva, Olga Trofimova and Archpriest Stephen Platt (The Institute of Orthodox Studies, Cambridge).
