The Romanovs ─ The Final Chapter

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated for more than sixty years in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie, the author of Catherine the Great, presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.

The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books

These Robert K. Massie books are available in Modern Library editions

The Romanovs

“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Peter the Great
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.”—The New York Times Book Review

Nicholas and Alexandra

“A magnificent and intimate picture . . . Not only the main characters but a whole era become alive and comprehensible.”—Harper’s