Alexan­dra Romanov and her girls did not suf­fer for a want of jew­el­ry. Take a look at some of the high­lights of their jew­el­ry box: http://bit.ly/1lRlExO(Pho­to

Much of the Romanov family’s enter­tain­ment came from their fas­ci­na­tion with Brown­ie cam­eras. This is also the rea­son we have so many pho­tographs of them—they

Today The Fam­i­ly Romanov: Mur­der, Rebel­lion & The Fall of Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia, writ­ten by Can­dace Flem­ing, hits the shelves of your local book­store. Per­fect summer

Q: What got cut from the book? I cut so much from the story—anecdotes and pho­tographs. The biggest rea­son was length. I sim­ply couldn’t tell the

Alex­ei had hemo­phil­ia, a genet­ic dis­ease that affects only males. Hemo­phil­ia is trans­mit­ted by the moth­er. The dis­ease was wide-spread in Alexandra’s fam­i­ly—her own brother

1991 was a sem­i­nal year for Romanov researchers. Many doc­u­ments pre­vi­ous­ly held pri­vate under the Sovi­et Union were released for schol­ar­ly access. I have to

Did you know? The Romanov family’s lan­guage was not Russ­ian. Tsar Nicholas spoke Russ­ian, but no one else in his imme­di­ate fam­i­ly did. Alexan­dra was

Russia’s law of suc­ces­sion spec­i­fied that only males could inher­it the throne. The tra­di­tion at a roy­al birth dic­tat­ed that three hun­dred thun­der­ous rounds of

From “Before You Begin,” in The Fam­i­ly Romanov: “Rus­sians have three names: a first name, a father’s name with –ovich or –evich added (mean­ing “son of”)

I was recent­ly inter­viewed about writ­ing The Fam­i­ly Romanov: Mur­der, Rebel­lion & the Fall of Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia. Join us for the next few weeks as