Here is a list of books you might want to read if you are interested in the Romanov dynasty and the country and society they goverened. I have read some, I own most and some may be of warying quality and reliability. Some include periods before and after the Russian Empire. Some could be fitted into more than one cathegory. A few are not available in English.I will try to update this list from time to time as I find new books or new books become published. Enjoy!
Diaries and correspondence of the Romanovs
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin
Chere Annette: Letters from St. Petersburg, 1820-1828: The Correspondence of the Empress Maria Feodorovna to Her Daughter the Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story
Romanov Family Yearbook: On This Date in Their Own Words
The Letters of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Marie
The Correspondence Of The Empress Alexandra Of Russia With Ernst Ludwig And Eleonore, Grand Duke And Duchess Of Hesse
The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra: April 1914-March 1917
In the Steps of the Romanovs: Final Two Years of the Last Russian Imperial Family (1916-1918)
The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra
The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution
Journal of a Russian Grand Duchess: Complete Annotated 1913 Diary of Olga Romanov, Eldest Daughter of the Last Tsar
Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913–1918
Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908–1918
1913 Diary of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna: Complete Tercentennial Journal of the Third Daughter of the Last Tsar
Maria and Anastasia: The Youngest Romanov Grand Duchesses In Their Own Words
Correspondence of the Russian Grand Duchesses: Letters of the Daughters of the Last Tsar
Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar Diaries and Letters, 1916-1918
Diaries and correspondence of other people
Russian journal of Lady Londonderry, 1836-37
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar
The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest
Private Diary of Mathilde Kschessinska
A Countess in Limbo: Diaries in War & Revolution; Russia 1914-1920, France 1939-1947
A Romanov Diary: The Autobiography of H.I.& R.H. Grand Duchess George
My life in Russia’s service–then and now
Memories In The Marble Palace
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
Memories of the Russian Court
My Mission to Russia and Other Diplomatic Memories
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
Six Years at the Russian Court
The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna Empress of Russia
At the Court of the Last Tsar
Memories of Russia 1916-1919
The Emperor Nicholas II: As I Knew Him
The Sokolov Investigation of the Alleged Murder of the Russian Imperial Family
Dancing in Petersburg: The Memoirs of Kschessinska
On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady before the Revolution
The Other Russia: The Experience of Exile
Russia Through Women’s Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia
The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution
Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia
The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II
Days of the Russian Revolution: Memoirs from the right, 1905-1917
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood
Last days at Tsarskoe Selo
Last Years of the Court at Tsarskoe Selo
Biographies of the Romanovs and general topics concerning them
The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias
The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613-1917
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia
The Romanovs, 1818–1959: Alexander II of Russia and His Family
Alexis, Tsar of all the Russias
Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Terrible Tsarinas: Five Russian Women in Power
Elizabeth and Catherine: Empresses of All the Russias
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great & Potemkin: the imperial love affair
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia
Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace
Alexander of Russia: Napoleon’s Conqueror
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia 1825 - 1855
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
Alexander III: His Life and Reign
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna
Nicholas II: Emperor of All the Russias
Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars
The Last of the Tsars : Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led The World To War
A Gathered Radiance: The Life of Alexandra Romanov, Russia’s Last Empress
The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
The Four Graces: Queen Victoria’s Hessian Granddaughters
The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: the Ill-Fated British and Russian Royal Alliance
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria and The Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust
Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires
The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal
The Romanovs: Family of Faith and Charity
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
The Murder of the Romanovs
The House of Special Purpose
Alexei: Russia’s Last Imperial Heir: A Chronicle of Tragedy
A Guarded Secret : Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and Tsarevich Alexei’s Hemophilia
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Grand Dukes - Sons And Grandsons Of Russia’s Tsars
The Other Grand Dukes: Sons and Grandsons of Russia’s Grand Dukes
White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919
The Grand Duchesses: Daughters & Granddaughters of Russia’s Tsars
Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II
Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Michael II, the Last of the Romanov Tsars
The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
Olga Romanov: Russia’s Last Grand Duchess
Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr
Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia
Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia: New Martyr of the Communist Yoke
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna
A Fatal Passion: The Story of the Uncrowned Last Empress of Russia
Gilded Prism: The Konstantinovichi Grand Dukes & The Last Years Of The Romanov Dynasty
Death of a Romanov Prince
A Poet Among the Romanovs: Prince Vladimir Paley
Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing through Wars and Revolutions
The Romanovs: The Way It Was
Behind the Veil at the Russian Court
The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga
Russia and Europe: Dynastic Ties
Biographies of other people
The Tsar’s Doctor: The Life and Times of Sir James Wylie
The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsar
An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar: The Spiritual Journey of Charles Syndney Gibbes
The Forgotten Tutor: John Epps and the Romanovs
Rasputin: The Untold Story
The Murder of Grigorii Rasputin: A Conspiracy That Brought Down the Russian Empire
The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
Imperial Dancer: Mathilde Kschessinska and the Romanovs
Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia
Katya and the Prince of Siam
The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution
Photoalbums, cofee-table books
The Camera and the Tsars: The Romanov Family in Photographs
Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Romanovs: Love, Power and Tragedy
The Regalia of the Russian Empire
The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty
The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs: Treasures from Tsarskoye Selo
Royal Russia: The Private Albums of the Russian Imperial Family
Russia: Art, Royalty and the Romanovs
Nicholas II: The Last Tsar
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Family Albums
The Private World of the Last Tsar: In the Photographs and Notes of General Count Alexander Grabbe
The Jewel Album of Tsar Nicholas II: A Collection of Private Photographs of the Russian Imperial Family
Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar’s Children
The Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album 1860-1914
Dear Ellen (Royal Europe Through the Photo Albums of Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia)
Royal Gatherings (Who is in the Picture? Volume 1: 1859-1914)
Jewels of the Tsars: The Romanovs and Imperial Russia
Jewels from Imperial St. Petersburg
Postcards from the Russian Revolution
Before the Revolution: A View of Russia Under the Last Czar
Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia
The Romanov Legacy: The Palaces of St. Petersburg
Moscow: Splendours of the Romanovs
Fabergé, Lost and Found: The Recently Discovered Jewelry Designs from the St. Petersburg Archives
Faberge: Treasures of Imperial Russia
Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique
A Smolny Album: Glimpses into Life at the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens
Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar’s Painter in America and Paris
Anna Pavlova: Twentieth Century Ballerina
Tamara Karsavina: Diaghilev’s Ballerina
General history and specific events
Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century; Volume 1
The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century; Volume 2
The Crimean War: A History
Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians
Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire
The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia’s Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power
Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia
Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia: The Eighteenth-Century Nobility
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II
Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Vol. 1
Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Vol. 2
Pavlovsk : The Life of a Russian Palace
Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917
A Social History of the Russian Empire, 1650-1825
Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path
Women In Russian History: From The Tenth To The Twentieth Century
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars
The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Family in Imperial Russia
Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia
Imperial Crimea: Estates, Enchantments and the Last of the Romanovs
Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture Under the Last Tsars
The Martha-Mary Convent: and Rule of St. Elizabeth the New Martyr
Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia
Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Valse Des Fleurs: A Day in St. Petersburg in 1868
Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia
What Life Was Like in the Time of War and Peace: Imperial Russia, AD 1696-1917
When Miss Emmie Was in Russia: English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution
From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World’s Royal Courts
What Became Peters Dream: Court Culture in the Reign of Nicholas II
Faberge’s Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion
Revolution and its general aftermath
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917
The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Doomsday 1917: The Destruction of Russia’s Ruling Class
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917
To Free the Romanovs: Royal Kinship and Betrayal in Europe 1917-1919
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia’s Imperial Family
Students, Love, Cheka and Death
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Hidden Treasures of the Romanovs
Romanoff Gold: The Lost Fortunes of the Tsars
Russia Abroad: Prague and the Russian Diaspora, 1918–1938
The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs
Saving The Tsars’ Palaces
Nicholas And Alexandra: The Last Tsar And Tsarina
Russian Splendor: Sumptuous Fashions of the Russian Court
At The Russian Court: Palace And Protocol In The 19th Century
History of Russian Costume from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century
Collections of the Romanovs: European Arts from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Magnificence of the Tsars: Ceremonial Men’s Dress of the Russian Imperial Court, 1721-1917
Conspiracy and pretenders
Imperial Legend: The Mysterious Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I
The Escape of Alexei, Son of Tsar Nicholas II: What Happened the Night the Romanov Family Was Executed
I am Anastasia; The Autobiography of the Grand Duchess of Russia.
The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World’s Greatest Royal Mystery
A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson
The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: The Truth Behind the Romanov Mystery
The Quest for Anastasia: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Romanovs
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