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The Russian Court at Sea

The Russian Court at Sea

by Frances Welch (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $13.62
Synopsis

On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying 17 members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile. They included the Tsar's mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, and his sister, the Grand Duchess Xenia; Prince Felix Youssupov, the murderer of Rasputin; and Grand Duke Nicholas, former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies. The Russian Court at Sea vividly recreates this unlikely voyage, with its bizarre assortment of warring characters and its priceless cargo of treasures, including rolled-up Rembrandts and Faberge eggs. It is a story, by turns exotic, comic and doomed, of an extraordinary group of people caught up in a moment in history when their lives were in every way at sea.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Short Books Ltd
Published: 04 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 1907595708
ISBN 13: 9781907595707

Media Reviews
An engrossing account of the flight of the surviving Romanovs after the 1917 Revolution. Sunday Express A gripping account of the Romanovs' choppy passage into exile. Welch's detective work has produced a book that is wonderfully witty and sad by turns. Mail on Sunday The book's readability and telling use of detail are splendid. Spectator A quirky and gripping vignette of 20th-century Russian history. Sunday Times A gripping account of the Romanovs choppy passage into exile. Welch s detective work has produced a book that is wonderfully witty and sad by turns. Mail on Sunday Yes, it's been told before, but the 1919 exile of the Romanov family from Russia, in which they sailed on HMS Marlborough, is a splendidly exotic story that is well worth another airing; and Frances Welsh does it grippingly here, with lots of details I hadn't come across before. I loved to read of the goods they brought with them, including rolled-up Rembrandt paintings, Faberge eggs and other treasures of the sort. What a pilgrimage, to be sure. Sunday Telegraph A fascinating, poignant portrait of a bizarre collection of people caught up in the chaos of their exodus Irish Times A voyage of delight - revealing, fascinating and by turns shocking and amusing - a story so extraordinary that it reads like a novel. Lancashire Evening Post
Author Bio
Frances Welch is author of The Romanov & Mr Gibbes (Short Books, 2003) and A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson (Short Books, 2007) She is married to the writer Craig Brown, and has two children. She lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.