The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra By Helen Rappaport

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A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." —People magazine"The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and diary entries to showcase the sisters' thoughtfulness and intelligence." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Days of the Romanovs and Caught in the Revolution, The Romanov Sisters reveals the untold stories of the four daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra. They were the Princess Dianas of their day—perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four 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 four 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 letters from the grand duchesses to their friends and family, we learn that they were intelligent, sensitive and perceptive witnesses to the dark turmoil within their immediate family and the ominous approach of the Russian Revolution, the nightmare that would sweep their world away, and them along with it.The Romanov Sisters sets out to capture the joy as well as the insecurities and poignancy of those young lives against the backdrop of the dying days of late Imperial Russia, World War I and the Russian Revolution. Helen Rappaport aims to present a new and challenging take on the story, drawing extensively on previously unseen or unpublished letters, diaries and archival sources, as well as private collections. It is a book that will surprise people, even aficionados.

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Any loss of young life is a sadness. Those who remain are left to grieve and to wonder at what the young person who passed might have achieved during a longer time on earth.Multiply that loss by four, for the four daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra, and you have a sense of what author Helen Rappaport may have been seeking with the writing of this book.Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia were the daughters of the ruler of Russia, and most folks know in general terms that they lived a sheltered, insular life, largely tucked away from the eyes of the country and the world by the choice of their melancholic mother and homeward-focused father. If you've read Massie and others, you know that the sisters had a habit of referring to themselves via acronym, OTMA, and that they were positioned as seemingly interchangeable ethereal "graces."What Rappaport attempts to do, by drawing upon available primary and secondary sources, is to draw out the personalities of each of these young women, highlighting their differences as well as their similarities. Fully aside from the weight of knowing their fate while conducting her research, Rappaport was in some cases stymied by two unfortunate realities. First, to put the situation bluntly, Russia's protocol for determining succession rendered their younger brother the single most important offspring of their generation. Not that their parents loved them any less -- and indeed some of Nicholas's surviving comments on the birth of various daughters are achingly beautiful -- but in dynastic terms, most all eyes were on Alexei. Second, in the Victorian era, there were more strictures on the acceptable roles and presentation of young women. Thus the white dresses and the clouds of dark hair.Despite these issues, the author has managed to extract vignettes from correspondence, recollections, and surviving memorabilia such as diaries to flesh out the haunting images and round them out into individuals with both attributes and flaws. Tatiana and Olga stand out from the mists most clearly, in part because of their wartime service and the happenstance that led to their appearances in society both on their own accord and as stand-in at certain events on behalf of their mother. Indeed, the responsibilities they shouldered and the way they did so highlight their potential had they lived longer lives, and make one wonder whether Russia's path might have differed and by how much if Nicholas had been a more involved ruler earlier on, if the family had not treated their son's hemophilia as a dread secret, if Alexandra's melancholy had not hamstrung the family, if Olga could have been her father's heir ... if, if, if....In keeping with this, despite the insularity with which their parents wanted to enrobe the sisters, it was refreshing to learn about how the older two vigorously pitched in with nursing efforts on the home front. We are left to wonder how their fates might have been different had they all been born just a few years earlier. Rappaport also includes some fascinating details about romances and matchmaking that I will not go into, so as not to include any spoilers.I was surprised at the number of correspondents the sisters had beyond the family, and the frequency with which they wrote to these friends. Another side effect of rendering the sisters as human beings rather than cardboard cutouts is to shed some light on their awareness of their steadily worsening situation.It helps that in recent years, additional materials have become available, such as some of the grand duchesses' diaries; and that Rappaport reads Russian so that she can work with source documents as written. With material continuing to become available, I hope that she looks at issuing an afterword/postscript -- perhaps initially in electronic form, and then in printed form in future editions of this book.NOTES ON IMAGES: The images used to illustrate this book range from the ones commonly seen, such as group shots at Tsarkoe Selo and on the building ledge at Tobolsk, to a few that may well be new to you, chiefly because they are of one or more sisters with people outside the family. I was disappointed at the paucity of images, however, and given the subject matter expected a good dozen more images than were included. Since any images of the sisters are at least a hundred years old and thus in the public domain, acquisition cost should not be a prohibiting factor. If for some reason it is, then it would have been helpful if the end notes included a list of websites that host images ... there are several that come to mind that could have been included without harming the revenue opportunities of the publisher.SPECIFIC TO KINDLE: The conversion process for images was extremely disappointing and really should be redone. Images are all queued near the end, which isn't ideal. What's worse and inexcusable, however, is that their default size is postage stamp at best, and when clicked on, they either render pixelated or fuzzy. While it is possible that some of the pictures technically cannot be any better than this, quite a few of the "familiar" ones absolutely exist in a higher-resolution form that would permit them to be rendered at 4 by 6 inches or thereabouts in acceptable resolution without pixelization or moire.

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