Buy this book on-line TROUBETZKOY, ALEXANDER S.: : IMPERIAL LEGEND: The Disappearance of Tsar Alexander IUK.STAPLEHURST,KENT.SPELLMOUNT LIMITED,2003. ISBN 1862272182.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.First and originally published Toronto,Canada by Thomas Allen & Son,Limited,2002.] NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated front panel of dw/dj - subject's equestrian mounted portrait painting by Franz Kruger,with white+pale blue lettering to front,lettering repeated to spine/backstrip which has a thumbnail detail from front's mounted portrait at head of spine,rear panel of dw/dj with b/w illustration reproduction - subject at prayer in Alexander Nevsky Monastery before his last trip to Taganrog,Sept., 1825,where he was later to die,contracting typhus; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain light blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a dark blue+white striped headband and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xii-xvipp+2-300pp [paginated] includes author's notes,acknowledgements,19 chapters,12pp contemporary b/w illustration+portrait reproductions and b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp140/1,appendices (A+B),Reference Notes,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,an abridged Romanov genealogy table/chart with b/w map Europe - 1812 to its reverse,and a title separator page.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
Part history,part detective story,the book attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Tsar Alexander I.
For a quarter century,Tsar Alexander I ruled over an empire of 44 million subjects,in a country that covered one-seventh of the globe.As the vanquisher of Napoleon,he became the most powerful man in Europe,a sovereign of untold wealth and power.In 1825,at the age of forty-eight, Alexander - a sturdy man in excellent health - died under mysterious circumstances.At his funeral,few people actually saw the body,which remained covered all the way to its final resting place in the Romanov family crypt in St Petersburg.
Rumours immediately began to circulate that the body was not Alexander's but that of a stranger.It was whispered that the Tsar had faked his own death in order to escape into anonymity,shedding the burdens of the throne he had reluctantly assumed after the murder of his father.years later stories were told of a certain starets,one of the many ascetic wanderers or penitents who moved about Siberia living on charity and offering prayers for those in need. According to the legend,this princely starets,who died in 1864 and was known for his unique spiritual qualities,was Alexander.
Offers a mesmerising portrait of what really happened to the leader of one of the world's most powerful nations.
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