The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul Because of DNA testing, we know Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna perished along with the rest of her family in a cellar room of the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg. In this book, the author imagines her survival. That part, I admit, was a little hard for me to swallow, but…

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12.10.2024

Who was the last Tsar of Russia? – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

Maybe not who you think. Most would say it was Nicholas II who, at that time, had been tsar for twenty-three years, but there was another with a claim to that distinction. During the February-March 1917 Russian Revolution, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, Nicholas’s younger brother, left his home and family in Gatchina and went to…

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27.02.2025

The Tortured Traveller by Sheldon Herman – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

I have a few words to say about this book: funny, engaging, quirky… The author fancies a trip to South America, but because it's the rainy season, he chooses a two-month-long luxury safari in Africa. Luxury? Not quite. The trip is a problem-plagued odyssey on a bus whose windows and roof leak rain. Instead of…

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29.03.2025

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

https://www.amazon.com/Paris-Wife-Paula-McLain-ebook/dp/B004JHYRJK?ref The book describes the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson from their beginnings in Chicago to the heady days in Paris of the twenties defined by such literary giants as Ezra Pound, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. It was a group to which Hemingway longed to belong, but…

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The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

Who was the last Tsar of Russia? – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

The Tortured Traveller by Sheldon Herman – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain – DIGGING INTO THE PAST

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