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Light toning, inscription 1st page, else contents appear as unread & unblemished in wraps displaying minor surface/edge/wear, as shown, scuff, bottom on left side. Inscription "Note; Have another look at the Hitler 'suicide' -- Carolus Petrovick"KIRKUS REVIEW
For those who enjoy historical phantasmagoria this will be a heady feast. Null has unearthed the story of one Aaron Simanovitsch, a Kiev jeweler and a Jew who became Rasputin's "trustee," an intimate at the Imperial court and a one-man tribune for Russian Jewry single-handedly averting pogroms, securing university seats and travel permits for his brethren, etc. Through Rasputin (characterized by the author as "a sensitive, original humanist") Simanovitsch curried the favor of Nicholas and Alexandra and when the time came he repaid their generosity: the good jeweler masterminded the escape of the Imperial family from the Bolsheviks. To this day, says Null, five of the Romanovs are alive and well; Nicholas, alas,… Read More
