Description:A New York Times Bestseller A Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club SelectionWith haunting prose, Robert Alexander brings to life the Romanov's kitchen boy, Leonka, whom the Bolsheviks mysteriously spared and who in turn vanished into the bloody tides of the Russian Revolution. But what did the young boy see in those final days of the Imperial family? Would he know the truth of the secret letters smuggled to the Tsar? . . . On where thirty-eight pounds of tsarist jewels are to be found? . . . And why the bodies of two of the Romanov children are missing from the secret grave that was finally discovered in 1991?