In this commanding book, Robert K. Massie, prize-winning author of Catherine the Great, sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovsâ™ lives: Nicholasâ™s political na¯vet©, Alexandraâ™s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexisâ™s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and historyâ”the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.