| ISBN |
9780230768178 (hardback) |
| 0230768172 (hardback) |
| 9781447259350 (paperback) |
| Name |
Rappaport, Helen author. |
| Title |
Four sisters : the lost lives of the Romanov grand duchesses / Helen Rappaport. |
| Edition |
Unabridged edition. |
| Published |
London Macmillan, 2014. |
| ©2014 |
| Description |
xviii, 491 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps 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. Much has been written about Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate, as it has about the Russian Revolutions of 1917, but little attention has been paid to the Romanov princesses, who - perhaps inevitably - have been seen as minor players in the drama. In Four Sisters, however, acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport, puts them centre stage and offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Drawing on their own letters and diaries and other hitherto unexamined primary sources, 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 haeomophiliac brother, and, latterly, the trauma of the revolution and its terrible consequences. |
| Subjects |
Anastasia -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901-1918 |
| Nicholas -- II -- Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 -- Family |
| Tatiana -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1897-1918 |
| Olga -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1895-1918 |
| Nicholas -- II -- Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 -- Family |
| Anastasii︠a︡ Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901-1918 |
| Tati︠a︡na Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1897-1918 |
| Olʹga Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1895-1918 |
| Nicholas -- II -- Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 -- Family |
| Romanov, House of |
| Maria Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1899-1918 |
| Nobility -- Russia -- Biography |
| Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 |
| Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
- Anastasia -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, -- 1901-1918 .
- Anastasii︠a︡ Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, -- 1901-1918 .
- Maria Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, -- 1899-1918 .
- Nicholas -- Emperor of Russia -- II, -- 1868-1918 -- Family .
- Nicholas -- II -- Emperor of Russia, -- 1868-1918 -- Family .
- Nobility -- Russia -- Biography .
- Olga -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, -- 1895-1918 .
- Olʹga Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, -- 1895-1918 .
- Romanov, House of .
- Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 .
- Tatiana -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, -- 1897-1918 .
- Tati︠a︡na Nikolaevna -- Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, -- 1897-1918 .
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