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Article: Russia's Last Tsar.
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
- Author:
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One of the sidebars to the 1991 fall of the Soviet empire was the growing nostalgia among the Russian people for the family of Tsar Nicholas II, slain with his family in 1918 in the wake of the Russian Revolution. The story of the ill-fated Romanovs is narrated by Jeremy Irons as archival film and scenes from various feature movies, as well as still photos and home movies shot by the Tsar, recount this engrossing cross of historical splendor and a gripping murder mystery.
Watching the Tsar, Tsarina, their four beautiful daughters, and their hemophiliac son, the heir to the throne, at play and in ceremonial occasions, it is hard to imagine the oppressiveness of ...