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* Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction 수상작
* Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature 수상작
* Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction 수상작
* Robert F. Sibert Award 수상작
* SCBWI Gold Kite Award 수상작
* Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Award 수상작
* Cybils Award in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2014 수상작
* Horn Book Fanfare 수상작
* YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist
* ALSC Notable Children’s Books
* Booklist Editor's Choice 2014
* Booklist Editors Top of the List for Youth Nonfiction 2014
* Huffington Post Great Kid Books for Gift-Giving 2014
* Junior Library Guild selection
* Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book 2014
* Los Angeles Times Literary Book Prize nominee
* New York Public Library Best Books for Teens 2014
* Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Books of the Year
* School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
* Wall Street Journal Best Books of the Year
* Washington Post Best Books for Kids 2014


논픽션에 수여하는 거의 모든 상을 휩쓸었으며, 주요 언론 및 평론지들로부터 "올해의 책"으로 선정된 유명한 책입니다.

1차 세계대전까지 러시아를 지배했던 러시아 로마노프 왕조의 마지막 짜르(황제)였던 니콜라스 2세와 그의 네딸, 혈우병 환자였던 외아들 니콜라스, 그리고 은둔생활을 했던 아내 알렉산드라 등 로마노프 일가의 삶과 몰락을 다양한 사진 자료들과 함께 흥미진진하게 서술한 논픽션입니다. 1984년에 예상치 못하게 러시아 황제 자리를 물려 받은 후, 1차 세계대전의 혼란을 겪으면서 1918년 볼셰비키 혁명세력에 의해 처형 당하기 까지 세계 역사의 커다란 분수령이 된 러시아 마지막 황제 로마노프일가의 파란만장한 일대기가 흥미진진하게 펼쳐집니다.

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버책입니다.






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Library Binding: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0375967826
ISBN-13: 978-0375967825
책 크기: 16.3 cm x 24.4 cm



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Book Description
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs--at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia's poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing read as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards.


School Library Journal
The tragic Romanovs, last imperial family of Russia, have long held tremendous fascination. The interest generated by this family is intense, from debates about Duchess Anastasia and her survival to the discovery of their pathetic mass graves. A significant number of post-Glasnost Russian citizens consider the Romanovs holy to the extent that the Russian Orthodox Church has canonized them. This well-researched and well-annotated book provides information not only on the history of these famous figures but also on the Russian people living at the time and on the social conditions that contributed to the family's demise. The narrative alternates between a straightforward recounting of the Romanovs' lives and primary source narratives of peasants' lives. The contrast is compelling and enhances understanding of how the divide between the extremely rich and the very poor can lead directly to violent and dramatic political change. While the description and snippets on the serfs and factory workers are workmanlike, the pictures painted of the reclusive and insular Romanovs is striking. Unsuited to the positions in which they found themselves, Nicholas and Alexandra raised their children in a bubble, inadequately educating them and providing them only slight exposure to society. The informative text illuminates their inability to understand the social conditions in Russia and the impact it might have had on them. This is both a sobering work, and the account of the discovery of their bones and the aftermath is at once fascinating and distressing. A solid resource and good recreational reading for high school students.


Booklist *Starred Review*
History comes to vivid life in Fleming’s sweeping story of the dramatic decline and fall of the House of Romanov. Her account provides not only intimate portraits of Tsar Nicholas; his wife, Alexandra; and the five Romanov children, but it also offers a beautifully realized examination of the context of their lives-Russia in a state of increasing social unrest and turmoil. The latter aspect is shown in part through generous excerpts from letters, diaries, memoirs, and more that are seamlessly interspersed throughout the narrative. All underscore the incredible disparity between the glittering lives of the Romanovs and the desperately impoverished ones of the peasant population. Instead of attempting to reform this, Nicholas simply refused to acknowledge its presence, rousing himself only long enough to order savage repression of the occasional uprising. Fleming shows that the hapless tsar was ill equipped to discharge his duties, increasingly relying on Alexandra for guidance; unfortunately, at the same time, she was increasingly reliant on the counsel of the evil monk Rasputin. The end, when it came, was swift and-for the Romanovs, who were brutally murdered-terrible. Compulsively readable, Fleming’s artful work of narrative history is splendidly researched and documented. For readers who regard history as dull, Fleming’s extraordinary book is proof positive that, on the contrary, it is endlessly fascinating, absorbing as any novel, and the stuff of an altogether memorable reading experience.