"Epic history on the grandest scale.
How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world\'s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness.
Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar\'s tea party in comparison."-- Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world\'s surface for three centuries. . . . "Epic history on the grandest scale