Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

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On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias.

In Four Sisters acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Drawing on their own letters and diaries, she paints a vivid picture of their lives in the dying days of the Romanov dynasty. We see, almost for the first time, their journey from a childhood of enormous privilege, throughout which they led a very sheltered and largely simple life, to young womanhood - their first romantic crushes, their hopes and dreams, the difficulty of coping with a mother who was a chronic invalid and a haemophiliac brother, and, latterly, the trauma of the revolution and its terrible consequences.

Compellingly readable, meticulously researched and deeply moving, Four Sisters gives these young women a voice, and allows their story to resonate for readers almost a century after their death.

'An astoundingly intimate tale of domestic life lived in the crucible of power' - Observer

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Authors:
Rappaport, Helen
Year Published:
2015
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781447227175
Number of Pages:
512
Publication Date:
29/01/2015
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Place of Publication:
London
Publication Date:
29/01/2015
SKU:
9781447227175

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