The White Night of St. Petersburg

by Michel de Grèce

Book Overview

One morning in July of 1998, all the Romanovs still living assembled in the lobby of the recently renovated Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg. They were waiting to attend the solemn burial of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children, murdered eighty years earlier, who were finally to be interred together. Prince Michael of Greece was there because his grandmother, Grand Duchess Olga, was a Romanov. She left Russian at sixteen to marry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871139227
• ISBN13: 9780871139221
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great piece of history

An interesting slice of history, well written, competently translated. Other books of Prince Michael's show photos of this Romanov who survived Soviet Russia, in Moscow, living long enough to see the fall of Communism. Fascinating!