TY - GEN AU - Sebag Montefiore,Simon TI - The Romanovs : : 1613-1918 SN - 9780307280510 AV - 338 DK 37.8 S443r 2017 U1 - 947.09/9 PY - 2017/// CY - New York : PB - Vintage Books, KW - Casa de los Románov KW - Romanov, House of KW - Rusia KW - Historia KW - Reyes y gobernantes N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-669) and index; Prologue : Two boys in a time of troubles -- Act I: The rise. Scene 1: The brideshows ; Scene 2: The young monk ; Scene 3: The musketeers ; Scene 4: The All-Drunken Synod -- Act II: The apogee. Scene 1: The emperor ; Scene 2: The empresses ; Scene 3: Russian Venus ; Scene 4: The Golden Age ; Scene 5: The conspiracy ; Scene 6: The duel -- Act III: The decline. Scene 1: Jupiter ; Scene 2: Liberator ; Scene 3: Colossus ; Scene 4: Master of the land ; Scene 5: Catastrophe ; Scene 6: Emperor Michael II ; Scene 7: Afterlife -- Epilogue : Red tsars/white tsars N2 - "The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries."--NoveList ER -