“(A) superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” — -- Amelia Lost "An exhilarating narrative history of a doomed and clueless family and empire." —Jim Murphy, author of Newbery Honor Books -- Charles and Emma Winner of the Los Angeles TimesWinner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist  Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction