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Bezig met laden... The Lost Fortune of the Tsarsdoor William Clarke
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. La tragedia del asesinato de la familia Romanov y lo que sucedió con la fortuna del Zar NicolásII. ( ) 2 1/2 stars, really, but I'm feeling generous. The book relies too much on Edvard Radzinsky for the history of the Romanovs from 1914-17; having read Radzinsky on Stalin, I regard him as suspect (too many personal axes to grind). I bought the book for a particular purpose; to gain more information on the fate of the gold shipments across the Trans-Siberian Railway from 1914 to 1917, and I discovered very little new in that area. The part I am particularly interested in gets a page and a half, and though Japan is mentioned as the repository of some of the missing millions at one point, this is not examined at all. The book does make some good points in places related to war debts and payments for munitions (which account for many of the legends of the gold scattered around the world) and takes a lot of effort to distinguish between "Tsarist gold" and "the Tsar's gold" (strictly speaking, the term "Tsar" should not be applied as a legal term to any Russian monarch after Peter the Great, but it was in common use). As a book, this is weird. It is set in Photina - an odd choice for electronic typesetting, and is completely unhyphenated throughout, which means word spacing varies radically throughout a page. Tricky to read. More silly misprints than I would expect, and one howler of an editorial slip: "Rasputin" for "Russian" in one place. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
When WWI broke out in 1914 Russia's Romanov dynasty was among the world's richest families. Yet ever since the Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children at Ekaterinburg, the mystery of what happened to their wealth has remained unsolved. This book is an account of the authors' answers to the Tsar's lost fortune. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)947.083History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- Nicholas II, 1894-1917LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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