Love Stories of the Romanov Family

The Romanov family has several different stories. One – the official, ceremonial one – portrays the members of the First Family of Russia primarily as rulers. And another reveals their intimate, human essence, subject to lofty feelings and destructive passions. Here, the women take center stage – the friends and lovers of the emperors, who together shaped the history of the country while remaining in the shadows. Their fates are carefully avoided by official chronicles, and sometimes they have to be reconstructed piece by piece… This book is created in such a manner. Stories from historians, journalists, and memoirists from the 19th to the early 20th centuries will tell you about the passions of Peter the Great and the two fiancées of the boy tsar Peter II, about the long-term relationship of Paul I with Ekaterina Nelidova and the secret lovers of Nicholas I, about the morganatic wife of Alexander II, about the romance of future tsar Nicholas II with ballerina Matilda Kshesinska, and much more. Previously, the book was published under the title "Unofficial Stories of the Romanov House".