Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar.(Brief article)(Book review) From: Biography | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Lourie, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Alexander II Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar. Edvard Radzinsky. Trans. Antonina Bouis. New York: Free Press, 2005. 462 pp. $35.00.

"Lively and brilliant, both epic and epigrammatic, [this book] has been nimbly translated by Antonina Bouis. The narrative's principal flaw could be corrected with a single stroke of the pen. If the subtitle were changed to 'The Times and Reign of the Last Great Tsar,' we would expect what this book in fact provides--a portrait ...

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