Why people recommend it
The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky is a biographical account detailing the life, reign, and downfall of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. Robert Evans referenced Radzinsky's book across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards while analyzing the Romanov dynasty. Evans cited the author to explain the extensive dynastic intermarriages that resulted in virtually no native Russian blood remaining within the veins of the twentieth-century Romanov rulers. Furthermore, Evans utilized the biography to describe how strict military life fostered obedience, diligence, and ruinous rigidity within Nicholas as a shy young man. Additionally, Evans pointed to Radzinsky's work to highlight claims from individuals close to the monarch indicating that Nicholas did not personally order the creation of the infamous antisemitic text known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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Robert Evans In the last zar author Edward Rzzinski cites several people close to Nicholas II who claimed that he did no… 3
“In the last zar author Edward Rzzinski cites several people close to Nicholas II who claimed that he did not create he did not order the creation of the protocols”
“Edward Rosinski in his book the last Zar explains as a result of countless dynastic marriages by the 20th century scarcely any Russian blood flowed in the veins of the Russian Romanovs”
“So in his biography, The Last Zar, Rzzinski explains, quote, "The army meant obedience and diligence above all else. Both these qualities which the shy youth already possessed, the army would foster ruinously."”
