292 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Before you begin Russia 1903 Beyond the palace gates: peasant turned worker Before the storm "I dreamed that I was loved" Beyond the palace gates: a peasant boyhood "What a disappointment!" Beyond the palace gates: lullabies for peasant babies "A small family circle" Beyond the palace gates: another family circle Dark clouds gathering The year of nightmares Lenin, the duma, and a mystic named Rasputin Beyond the palace gates: house no. 13 "Pig and filth" and family fun Beyond the palace gates: an occupation for workers' daughters Gathering clouds Three centuries of Romanovs Beyond the palace gates: a different kind of education for a different kind of boy The storm breaks "My God! My God! What madness!" In defense of mother Russia Beyond the palace gates: Vasily's diary The reign of Rasputin It all comes tumbling down Beyond the palace gates: molecule in a storm "Ye tyrants quake, your day is over" Beyond the palace gates: ye tyrants quake, your day is over Final days "Survivors of a shipwreck" Beyond the palace gates: the tsar's surprise party Into Siberia Beyond the palace gates: swarming the palace The house of special purpose Deadly intent "The world will never know what has become of them" Beyond the palace gates: living in communist Russia