The Last Tsars - A brief untold history of the Romanovs - by Paulo Rezzutti

Love and hate, faith and passions, life and blood, power and death would sum up the Romanovs well, but there is still much more to say about them. On the one hand, kings, queens, palace intrigues and luxury, lots of luxury. On the other, hunger, misery, slogans demanding social justice, revolutionaries, struggles and death. Dream on one side and reality on the other? A revolutionary would say that the construction of a new reality involves dreaming it. The fact is that from fairy tales to monarchies throughout history, the life of royalty, with its symbols, wealth, luxury and rituals, has always been in the imagination of humanity in the most diverse cultures. In the same way, the revolutionary hordes, with their marches, protests and riots, which attempt to abruptly break the established political and social order, also populate our imagination with a mix of admiration and dread, inhabiting our dreams and nightmares. In this book, writer and researcher Paulo Rezzutti brings together the two sides of this coin in a single story: that of the Romanov family, the last tsars of imperial Russia, who were arrested and deposed from power by the Bolsheviks during the October 1917 revolution and murdered in 1918, also presenting us with a beautiful photo notebook, with images never seen before by the Brazilian public, recording the daily life of the royal family. For decades, the disappearance of Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children, Tatiana, Anastácia, Maria, Olga and Alexei, was one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century, with countless rumors and versions about what happened. would actually have happened to the Romanovs and the appearance, in various places around the world, of supposed members of the family, who would have survived their tragic fate. With detailed information, a wide variety of images and an engaging text, The Last Tsars is the first volume of Paulo Rezzutti's new series, “A Brief Untold History”, which will edit in book format the most watched lives on the author's channel on Youtube. By tracing the life trajectory of Nicholas II and Alexandra until the final fall of the Romanov dynasty, this book is an invitation to delve into a time of great contradictions and transformations, the echoes of which can be heard to this day.