Emperor Nicholas II and the Revolution

The book by Russian writer and historian Ivan Pavlovich Yakobi, "Emperor Nicholas II and the Revolution," was first published in French in 1931, translated into five foreign languages, and has gone through a dozen French editions.

"No book written about this revolution reproduces its criminal folly and horrors with such brightness and accuracy, and in such a concise form, as the book by I.P. Yakobi," said Major General B.V. Gerua. The role of betrayal in the fall of autocracy in Russia and the execution of the Royal Family is the main theme of this work.

In 1938, translated into Russian, the book became, in the full sense of the word, a bedside book for Russian emigrants. They kept it "like a relic, like the life of the martyr-king." The publication of this book, which had been buried and unjustly forgotten for many years, was realized in the year of the centenary of the murder of the Royal Family. 

The book is based on unique materials on the history of Russia, eyewitness accounts, and the testimonies of direct participants in the events described.