Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign‐by‐reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia

The Chronicle Of The Russian Tsars is the latest book in Thames & Hudson’s Chronicles series, which also includes volumes on Chinese emperors, pharoes, popes, and Roman emperors. The volumes are reign‐by‐reign records of their subjects, and include timelines, datafiles and (in this case at least) quotations. This book is a sturdy 224 pages and includes a select bibliography and comprehensive index.

The period covered by the Chronicle of the Russian Tsars is from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries, during which time Russia was ruled by 26 tsars, some famous, some infamous, some less well known but...