Dimensions
139 x 216 x 40mm
Sir Bernard Pares (1867-1949) was for thirty years Professor of Russian History first at Liverpool University and then at London. He knew the country intimately, was attached to the Russian Army in the First World War and to the British Ambassador in Petrograd in 1917.
In this book Bernard Pares tells the story of the Russian Revolution from the standpoint of the Romanovs rather than the Bolsheviks. The result is a masterly and authoritative account of the reign of Nicholas II from his accession in 1894 until his murder at Ekaterinburg, along with the rest of his family, in 1918.
Pares' book vividly describes the events surrounding the Russo-Japanese War, "Bloody Sunday", the ill-fated experiment in constitutional government, and the traumas and tragedies of the First World War. There are memorable portraits of Witte and Stolypin, Rasputin and Kerensky and of the doomed imperial family. Above all, there is in intimate feel for the subject which could only come from one who had known so many of the people and events at first hand.
