Description
| Product ID: | 9781447227175 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses |
| Authors: | Author: Helen Rappaport |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, European history, History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Russian Revolution, Russia, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Award-winning and critically acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport turns to the tragic story of the daughters of the last Tsar of all the Russias, slaughtered with their parents at Ekaterinburg. <p>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.<br><br>In <i>Four Sisters </i>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.<br><br><b> Compellingly readable, meticulously researched and deeply moving, <i>Four Sisters</i> gives these young women a voice, and allows their story to resonate for readers almost a century after their death.</b><br><br><b>'An astoundingly intimate tale of domestic life lived in the crucible of power' </b><b>–</b><b> <i>Observer</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-01-29 |