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A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar s life; brief, sharp, but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time. Catherine Merridale, Observer

In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. In this masterful and forensic study, Robert Service examines the last year Nicholas s reign and the months between that momentous abdication and his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918.