Originally written in 1921 after the execution of the Tzar and his entourage by a participant in the story, Pavel Bykov, the then Chairman of the Ekaterinburg Soviet (the city of the Tzar’s execution, now Sverdlovsk) and expanded in 1927 for the tenth anniversary of the Revolution, this is the first English translation that saw a number of editions in the mid-1930s and then was pulled from circulation as the Popular Front became the Democratic Front. Includes a historical essay by the translator, Andrew Rothstein.

The Last Days of Tsar Nicholas by Pavel M. Bykov, Translated and Introduced by Andrew Rothstein. International Publishers, New York. 1935.

Contents: Preface by Andrew Rothstein, On the Eve of Revolution, The Overthrow of the Autocracy, The Arrest of the Romanovs, In the Old Nest, At Tobolsk, The Hermogenes Affair, Tobolsk after the November Revolution, Hopes of Liberation, The Soviet Urals, No Road past The Urals, At the Capital of the Urals,. The Last Days of the Romanovs, The Execution of the Romanov Family, The Execution of the Former Grand Dukes, Searching for the Romanovs. 90 pages.

International Publishers was formed in 1923 for the purpose of translating and disseminating international Marxist texts and headed by Alexander Trachtenberg. It quickly outgrew that mission to be the main book publisher, while Workers Library continued to be the pamphlet publisher of the Communist Party.

PDF of book: https://archive.org/download/LastDaysTsar/LastDaysTsar.pdf