"Excellent." -- Forbes "Vivid and harrowing." - Air Mail "Entertaining and, at times, heart-wrenching.Rappaport, a prolific historian and highly regarded Romanov expert, unveils a Paris in which Russians had long played a prominent role." - Wall Street Journal "Traces the Russian encounter with Paris from the city's glittering years as an expat playground before World War I to the grimmer reality of life in exile after the Bolshevik seizure of power." - New York Times Book Review "An engaging group biography.Rappaport is a mistress of the telling detail." --Washington Post "Rappaport's engaging prose and prodigious research makes After the Romanovs a touching and enlightening experience.
" - Shelf Awareness "The depth of the research is impressive, and the scope of the book is ambitious. Rappaport successfully traces those first Belle Époque artists and royals, those who were forced to flee with nothing during the revolution, and their experiences through World War I and beyond."-- Bookreporter.com "One of the effects of the Romanov dynasty's fall in 1917 was a flood of Russian refugees into Europe, including the arrival of aristocrats, artists, writers, and intellectuals who landed in Paris at the height of the city's creative ferment. Helen Rappaport tells their stories with marvelous skill and empathy." - Christian Science Monitor "Full of colorful anecdotes and sharp character sketches, this breezy account of life in exile entertains." - Publishers Weekly "Thorough and extremely well-researched." - Booklist "Throughout, [Helen Rappaport], a consummate historian, displays her deep research into the era, the city, and its denizens.
A culturally vibrant account of Russians uprooted to Paris during a tumultuous time." - Kirkus Reviews Praise for Helen Rappaport: "Finely researched and elegantly written." -- Washington Post for The Race to Save the Romanovs "An intriguing work of investigative writing." -- New York Journal of Books for The Race to Save the Romanovs "Lively.Rappaport's account works well as an introduction to a complicated year, but is most valuable for its record of the impressions of those who lived through it." -- Wall Street Journal for Caught in the Revolution "Splendid [and] endlessly fascinating." -- The New York Times Book Review for Caught in the Revolution "Superbly evocative.Helen Rappaport beautifully evokes the confusion of the February days.
" -- Newsday for Caught in the Revolution "A multifaceted account of the 1917 Russian Revolution.gripping and thoroughly researched.[Rappaport brings] the streets and spirit of the early-20th-century Petrograd to life on the page." -- Harper's Bazaar for Caught in the Revolution "Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." -- People magazine for The Romanov Sisters "Historian Helen Rappaport reveals new details about the glamorous lives and tragic deaths of the last Russian czar's four daughters." -- Parade magazine for The Romanov Sisters.