ZhZL. Romanovs. 7th edition. Kurukin I.V.

Over the three centuries of the Romanov’s stay on the throne, a lot has changed in the country - autocratic power remained unchanged. Its carriers played different roles in history, to the best of their strengths, abilities and understanding acting for the good of Russia. Among them were bright personalities, eccentric figures and inconspicuous characters, reformers and conservatives, the quietest, two great, unforgettable, liberator, peacemaker, bloody. Some paid their lives for his stay on the throne: Ivan VI spent 23 years in prison and was killed while trying to release him, Peter III and Pavel I Pali at the hands of the conspirators, Alexander II became a victim of the attempt of the terrorists, Nicholas II was shot by decision of the Ural Council.

the book of the Doctor of Historical Sciences Igor Kurukin, who gathered all the reigning Romanovs under the same cover, tells about the fate of the dynasty, the story of which began in 1613 in the Kostroma Ipatievsky monastery with an invitation to the throne of its first representative, and ended in Yekaterinburg in the Ipatievsky House with a shooting of the House royal family.