The story of the surviving Russian Imperial Family as they head into a life of exile aboard the HMS Marlborough.
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A masterpiece of comic understatement
Welch writes with a limpid style and a cool intelligence
I was hooked from page one - this is cumulatively moving - a real triumph of sympathy
The kind of history that makes fiction look pallid and pointless.
A gripping account of the Romanovs choppy passage into exile. Welch s detective work has produced a book that is wonderfully witty and sad by turns.
The book's readability and telling use of detail are splendid.
a splendidly exotic story ... Frances Welsh does it grippingly here, with lots of details I hadn't come across before. I loved to read of the goods they brought with them, including rolled-up Rembrandt paintings, Faberge eggs and other treasures of the sort. What a pilgrimage, to be sure.
A fascinating, poignant portrait of a bizarre collection of people caught up in the chaos of their exodus
The book s readability and telling use of detail are splendid.
An engrossing account of the flight of the surviving Romanovs after the 1917 Revolution.