abstract:Radetzky March (, 1932) by Joseph Roth chronicles the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire via the story of the Trotta family’s elevation to the nobility. The Radetzkymarsch is an early novelistic example of a story featuring the recurring fictional narrative participation of a historical figure, the Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (1830–1916); the Trotta family story continues to the time of the Anschluss in The Emperor's Tomb (Kapuzinergruft, 1938).