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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #60 on: February 17, 2006, 01:39:03 PM »
I've just bought The Private World of the Last Tsar for $20 (which I suspect is a good price) so I'm excited to see its contents! ;D

As for good photo books, I'd say Nicholas and Alexandra: the Family Albums by Prince Michael of Greece is the best that I've seen in terms of interesting and new content. Kurth's Tsar is also quite good. I've heard that The Camera and the Tsars is nice as well, but I've never quite gotten around to buying it. I might just do that one day soon... :P
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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #61 on: February 17, 2006, 02:23:58 PM »
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Romanov photo books are actually some of my favorite Romannov books. Is that true of anyone else? And I am appreciate it when anyone posts photos, because there is so much I haven't seen, and the Romanovs do speak through their photos.


I completely agree! Little by little I am building my collection of books and with each one comes photos, but the IF took so many that it's always wonderful to see something new.

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #62 on: February 17, 2006, 05:42:55 PM »
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I've just bought The Private World of the Last Tsar for $20 (which I suspect is a good price) so I'm excited to see its contents! ;D

Very, very good price!


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Oh gosh, eventually she'll have seen every photo, won't she? ;)

I hope so! But I think Lanie's still got me beat in that regard.
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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #63 on: February 17, 2006, 05:55:03 PM »
One does kind of wonder where Lanie sees all these pictures...lol

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #64 on: February 18, 2006, 01:15:55 AM »
My favourite picture book's are
Prince micheal of greece's N & A --family albums
Zoia Belyakova--the Romanov legacy
Charlotte Zeepvat -- camera and the tsars
Peter kurth--Tsar
all are great

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #65 on: February 18, 2006, 01:03:07 PM »
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My favourite picture book's are
Prince micheal of greece's N & A --family albums
Zoia Belyakova--the Romanov legacy
Charlotte Zeepvat -- camera and the tsars
Peter kurth--Tsar
all are great


The Romanov Legacy? What's in there?

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #66 on: February 18, 2006, 09:51:07 PM »
Nicholas and Alexandra: the Family Albums is pretty good, but hardly worth the $105 I paid for it. I like Camera and the Tsars better.

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #67 on: February 20, 2006, 11:25:12 AM »
I really liked the family albums, although I have only seen it from the library. I have never seen the other one, but I am going to buy it soon.

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #68 on: February 20, 2006, 01:16:42 PM »
Just a heads up for anyone wanting to buy photo albums- there are a couple going cheaply on UK amazon used at the moment.  Sadly I cannot afford to buy them myself, but I'm not so mean as to deny others the chance. ;)

Tsar: Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra is going for £20.73 ($36)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/offer-listing/-/0316507873/all/ref=wl_it_of/202-2418519-9421415?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=IX6WEX35H4MAP&colid=3FB16NR74ZTLX

And The Private World of the Last Tsar is going for just £15 ($26)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/offer-listing/-/000272636X/all/ref=wl_it_of/202-2418519-9421415?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I3V1NMUJZ95N3X&colid=3FB16NR74ZTLX

Don't miss out!

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #69 on: February 20, 2006, 06:06:16 PM »
The book, "The Story of the Royal Family" is a good photo book. About 85% of the book is pictures of the British royals from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II. There is a good quality image of the famous 1896 photo of Nicholas, Alexandra, GD Olga, Bertie & Queen Victoria at Balmoral (although they do misidentify Olga as Tatiana)

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #70 on: February 20, 2006, 10:13:31 PM »
Are you serious? They say an 1896 photo is Tatiana? That's too funny.  :D

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #71 on: February 21, 2006, 10:46:26 AM »
Thank you everyone for the suggestion and information.

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #72 on: February 21, 2006, 10:50:50 AM »
You're lucky you have UK amazon.. I live in the US,and things are more expensive here.

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #73 on: February 21, 2006, 11:14:26 AM »
Imperial Angel, most if not all sellers on UK amazon are happy, for an additional charge, to ship to the US.

If you are interested in something, it's worth asking.  Also, a lot of the used stuff on amazon is shipped from America to England, so you might end up saving even more money in ordering from UK amazon.

Worth a try, anyway. :)

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Re: Best book or album with photos and portraits of the Romanovs?
« Reply #74 on: February 21, 2006, 11:46:05 AM »
Thanks!