Romanovs Research Articles

Russian Autocrats from Ivan the Great to the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty; an Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources to 1985. By David R. Egan and Melinda A. Egan. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow, 1987. xxxv, 512 pp. Cloth.

Russian Autocrats from Ivan the Great to the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty; an Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources to 1985. By David R. Egan and Melinda A. Egan. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow, 1987. xxxv, 512 pp. Cloth. - Volume 47 Issue 4

Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917

}The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 19051917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchistseven Lenin himselfnot foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? Black Night, White Snow captures the rich drama of this whole period. With the artistry of a Balzac, Harrison Salisbury exposes the strata of Russian society, with its decedents, prophetic poets, religious fanatics, and newly liberated serfs. From archival sources within the Soviet Union, interviews, and his personal photography collection, he recreates the story as it happened. Hard data on Russia's economy, a first-hand knowledge of the county, and a historian's gift of compression are combined in a fast-paced narrative that reads with the ease of a good novel and the urgency of a newspaper headline. }

First survey of results obtained in France on reproductive and maternal performance in sheep, with particular reference to the Romanov breed and crosses with it

In France, the first real experiments with sheep crossbreeding began in 1963 at the INRA Domain of Bourges, using Cotentin, Border Leicester and Romanov (RO) rams on Berrichon du Cher (BC) ewes and production of crossbreds from two and three breeds. On account of the higher productivity of RO crossbreds as well as the good adaptation of RO ewes to sheep-fold management, the experiments were directed towards a more analytical study of the performances of the parental BC and RO ewes, possessing complementary qualities, and of their crossbreds (F1 and F2 and the 2 back-crosses). This study summarizes the main results obtained by the different research teams of INRA on fertility, prolificacy and its components, ovulation rate and embryonic losses, adaptability to breeding season changes (fertility at out of season lambings, or at accelerated rhythm of reproduction), endocrinological criteria, milk production of the dams, viability of lambs, and carcass quality as well as the productivity of four schemes using Romanov in crossbreeding. The introduction of Finnish ewes and rams was made in private farms as far back as 1966, but this breeding was ceased in 1970 for sanitary reasons. The remaining no culling breeding ewes are compared with the Romanov ones in the INRA Domain of Bourges. The results obtained with Finnish ewes are comparable with those of the Romanov as regards precocity and length of the breeding season, but the prolificacy of ewes and particularly the viability of lambs seem to be lower. However, these results are based on small numbers of observations and must be checked by the current studies taking place in several experimental farms.

The Sokolov Investigation of the Alleged Murder of the Russian Imperial Family. A Translation of Sections of Nicholas A. Sokolov's "The Murder of the Imperial Family"

The Sokolov Investigation of the Alleged Murder of the Russian Imperial Family. A Translation of Sections of Nicholas A. Sokolov's "The Murder of the Imperial Family"

The Romanovs. The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty

The Romanovs. The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty

The Murder of the Romanovs. The Authentic Account

The Murder of the Romanovs. The Authentic Account