First Edition: 6.14" x 9.21" Paperback, Black & White, Cream paper, Matt cover. 676 pages. This volume contains two great public domain books from three authors; Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden - lady in waiting to the Empress Alexandra; Alexander Kerensky - Prime Minister; Pavel Bulygin - Investigative aide to Nikolai Sokolov. Two important historical works have been brought together with many additional footnotes, fillers and images for a deeper explanation of the times. This is the best volume yet in the series, the word length is longer than hoped, but these works belong together as one account leads in to the next quite nicely. There are some contentions; Buxhoeveden's book is not the 'official' biography of the Empress, as sometimes claimed, but it is accurate and incontestable. One has to consider Kerensky's words as their meaning may have been sanitised to put him in a better light, as this work was translated by his second son Gleb, And finally, Bulygin's work was well received. Later, some of Bulygin's claims were disproved, which does not imply misleading information or any lacking of thoroughness, nor any padding out to fill pages, as he wrote about the things that were known about back then and available to him, when his book was published ten years after the murders of the royal family. "His handling of the telling of the actual 'tragedy' is extremely well done . . . throughout one feels the singleness and the frankness of the die-hard." - The Border Watch newspaper, Southern Australia, 30 April 1935. "This volume took an exorbitant time to prepare, considering it is the work of others. I visited the graves of Sophie Buxhoeveden in Brompton and Alexander Kerensky in Acton, to pay respects and to spruce them up a bit. As I read more in to these characters it became a project of love, taking about 12 months to complete, which I hope will come through to you in the pleasure of reading their first-hand accounts." - Tony Abbott Book One: Having an established status and influence at Court as the Empress's lady in waiting and confidante, Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden placed herself under voluntary house arrest with the Empress and her family. Her account of what happened within the palace walls, at the palatial home that became their prison, is regarded as the definitive version of events seen from the eyes of the Empress. Book Two Part 1: Alexander Kerensky describes the political turmoil that preceded the murders of the prisoners. He observed how they