Anatol Shmelev, the Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, recounts the tragic end of the Romanov family—Nicholas and Alexandra and their five children—after the tsar abdicated the throne in 1917. Shmelev describes the family’s final months before their brutal murder as documented in letters the grand duchesses sent to a childhood friend.

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Speaker: Anatol Shmelev, Research Fellow, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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