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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. 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 haeomophiliac 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139781447227175
eBay Product ID (ePID)209509972
Product Key Features
Book TitleFour Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicHistory
GenreBiographies & True Stories
TypeTextbook
AuthorHelen Rappaport
Dimensions
Item Height197 mm
Item Weight372 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorHelen Rappaport