In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated for more than sixty years in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.
Chapter 1: Down Twenty-three Steps
Chapter 3: Let Me Find Nothing
Chapter 4: A Character from Gogol
Chapter 6: Curious About Death
Chapter 7: The Ekaterinburg Conference
Chapter 8: At the Frontiers of Knowledge
Chapter 9: Dr. Maples Versus Dr. Gill
Chapter 10: Ekaterinburg Confronts Its Past
Chapter 11: Investigator Soloviev
Chapter 15: A Matter of Family Honor
Chapter 16: These People Have No Standing
Chapter 17: As Good as the People Using It
Chapter 18: The Cleverest of the Four Children
Chapter 19: The Romanov Emigres
Chapter 20: Seventy-eight Days