Two Stars Clive Cussler wrote an excellent book once. Unfortunately, The Romanov Ransom is not it. This pseudo-roman à clef tome is tedious, formulaic, and outlandish. The plot is so absurdly improbable that it negates any semblance of believability. It fails to engender empathy. Briefly: in 1918, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), […]
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Romanov Jewelry
Fabulous hardly describes the vast treasure of the Romanov jewelry cache. Below are a few samples of this vast collection. For those who have a keener interest I recommend the book titled Jewels of the Romanovs, Stefano Papi, Thames&Hudson, New York, 2010. Join the Czar’s1916 Christmas Ball in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg—formal […]