Helen Rappaport on the deaths of the Romanovs [audio 9min @33:15]

In the early hours of 17 July 1918, the Imperial Family of Russia were gunned down in the cellar of a house in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg by their Bolshevik guards. In her latest book, historian Helen Rappaport counts down the last days of the Romanov family's lives, drawing on new sources to focus on the dynamic within their closely guarded house. Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs is published by Hutchinson (UK). The interviewer is journalist Andrew Marr, and Rappaport answers queries from other guests, including neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan.