Helen Rappaport
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
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July 17, 1918 is the day in Russian history when the assassination/murder of the Romanovs took place. The former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, ...Read Review
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
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Rappaport tells the story of the Russian Revolution through a different perspective: that of the foreigners residing in or visiting St. Petersburg (renamed ...Read Review
The Romanov Sisters
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Though most know about the downfall of the Romanovs amid the Russian Revolution and their tragic end in Ekaterinburg in 1918, few know as ...Read Review
Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
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In the 1830s the world was enamored with science and the new inventions, technologies, discoveries (real and fraudulent) that appeared daily. No science ...Read Review
A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death that Changed the British Monarchy
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The image of Queen Victoria as a dour, gloomy widow in black pervades popular culture, overshadowing the vivacious young queen recently brought back ...Read Review
The Last Days of the Romanovs
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On 17 July 1918, in Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks brutally murdered Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexey. While ...Read Review
Dark Hearts of Chicago
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Dark indeed. This 1893 version of Chicago is a thoroughly unpleasant place, violent, racist, sexist and corrupt, both politically and morally. Helen Rappaport and ...Read Review
