A new book from the bestselling author of “The Diaries of the Romanov Princesses” and “Caught in the Revolution” is dedicated to the most unknown page in the life of the last Russian emperor - attempts to save Nicholas II and his family from death. A historical investigation based on recently discovered archival materials from Russia, the USA , Spain and Great Britain, previously inaccessible even to domestic historians, carefully restores the dramatic events of the spring and summer of 1917. Crowned European relatives of the Romanovs and Bolshevik sailors, Russian monarchists and British intelligence officers - history has all played their role in the fate of the Russian royal dynasty. A chain of fatal coincidences is intertwined with the ambitions of adventurers, cynical political calculation collides with naive hopes, betrayal is disguised as selfless loyalty... Helen Rappaport masterfully sorts out all the confusing versions and answers the main questions: was it possible to save the royal family and why this did not happen.