Galileo Galilei, the astronomer famed and scorned for his unorthodox ideas about a heliocentric galaxy once said “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Candace Fleming, in her nonfiction work, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, strives to reveal the truth about the truth about what happened to the Romanov family, a puzzling piece of history surrounded by controversies and rumors. Many concerned parents view the story as harmful to their innocent children’s minds who they fear will be negatively influenced by the book’s mentioning of murder, religion, prostitution, and alcohol. Yet these aspects of the novel give truth vision of the events that brought
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And the third...is the personal stories of the men and women whose struggle for a better life directly affected the course of the Romanov's lives" (Blog, 2015). By taking up three very different perspectives, Fleming checked herself for bias and allowed for her readers to examine history analytically by being a personal judge as to why the nobles or the peasants acted the way they did. Even though the Romanovs are viewed in a negative light–as elitists who cared little for their people, but rather for their own wellbeing–the novel stood in both the shoes of the peasants who viewed the Romanovs as “dddddd” and Romanovs themselves who believed that “nothing was wrong”(Fleming 1569). The lack of bias factor increases the merit and value of this book, as it serves as a reference book to find out information regarding the Romanov family while being able to differentiate the rights and wrongs of the peasants and the Romanovs, and determine for themselves if the Russian Revolution was really
And the third...is the personal stories of the men and women whose struggle for a better life directly affected the course of the Romanov's lives" (Blog, 2015). By taking up three very different perspectives, Fleming checked herself for bias and allowed for her readers to examine history analytically by being a personal judge as to why the nobles or the peasants acted the way they did. Even though the Romanovs are viewed in a negative light–as elitists who cared little for their people, but rather for their own wellbeing–the novel stood in both the shoes of the peasants who viewed the Romanovs as “dddddd” and Romanovs themselves who believed that “nothing was wrong”(Fleming 1569). The lack of bias factor increases the merit and value of this book, as it serves as a reference book to find out information regarding the Romanov family while being able to differentiate the rights and wrongs of the peasants and the Romanovs, and determine for themselves if the Russian Revolution was really