Olga tatiana maria et anastasia romanov biography
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The Lost Lives of the Romanov Sisters
By Helen Rappaport
What more is there possibly to know, you may ask, about the Romanov sisters—beyond the familiar image of four pretty girls in white dresses and big picture hats? It’s a perennial question, and one to which the common response is “not a lot.” They died young, they were innocent, lived protected lives that had left them unworldly; they had seen very little of the world beyond the palace gates and had even less experience of the people in it. Their lives were lost to history, and to us, and perhaps they would have little in them of interest.
The Romanov sisters with their father, Tsar Nicholas II, standing on a cannon
Ever since their horrific and brutal murder in July 1918, the Romanov sisters have been perceived as beautiful and tragic, certainly, but in historic terms little more than the pretty set dressing to the much more dramatic story of their parents—Nicholas and Alexandra—and their tragic hemophiliac brother. The
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The Home of the Last Tsar - Romanov and Russian History
Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by Helen Rappaport
512pages
Published: 2014
Genre: Non-fiction
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Languages: English
ISBN Hardcover: 978-1250020208
ISBN Softcover: No softcover edition available
Print Status: in print
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From the publisher: • I have always been haunted by the story of the four Romanov sisters. They were constantly in my head after I visited Ekaterinburg in the summer of 2007 to research my first Romanov book, Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs.Sense of place is very important to me as a writer, and I was particularly gripped by it when I went to Western Siberia.Walking the streets of the city, and more importantly, going out into the Koptyaki Forest where the family’s bodies were dumped after they were murdered in July 1918, left an indelible impression on my mind and my creative imagination. I wanted, with a passion, to tell the story of those four lovely, much photographed but historically neglected sisters. You only have to look at any of the illustrated books on the Romanovs to see how incredibly photogenic they were. It is impossible to resist the lure of those touching, and now iconic,images of Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia in their pretty white lace dre
They were the Princess Dianas of their day—perhaps the most photographed and talked about ung royals of the early twentieth century. The fyra captivating Russian Grand Duchesses—Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov—were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle.
Over the years, the story of the kvartet Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of sentimental and idealized hagiography. With this treasure trove of diaries and OTMA—The Romanov Sisters