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Rappaport, who has previously written about the last days of the Romanov family as well as the lives of other royal families, here turns her attention to Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, murdered along with their brother and parents in 1918. Yet, in some ways, this is less about the girls and more about their mother, Alexandra, whose despair at producing four girls before giving birth to a hemophiliac son, is palpable. Rappaport uses the sisters’ letters and diaries to illuminate their lives, but they rarely jump off the pages as real people, even though they are each described with specific personality traits. Perhaps not surprisingly, it is when their relationships with the magnetic Rasputin are introduced that the girls seem the most alive. What also comes through quite clearly is the great love and devotion each of the Romanov family members felt for each other, despite living through the harshest of circumstances. The haunting cover photograph of the Romanov sisters will draw readers, and the extensive bibliography will aid those who want to learn more. --Ilene Cooper
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“Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of Tatiana, Olga, Maria and Anastasia†―People“A gossipy, revealing story of the doomed Russian family's fairy tale life told by an expert in the field.†―Kirkus Reviews“In their time, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia were depicted in international accounts as a cute, indistinguishable quartet. But Rappaport brings out each one's character and does it neatly, with a fine touch. . . . While we know that the family's fate will be tragic, the girls don't, and Rappaport, with a light hand and admiring eyes, allows the four Grand Duchesses to grow on us as they grow up.†―Christian Science Monitor“Rappaport is good at showing life within the castle gates… [she] makes a genuinely new, interesting contribution to the Romanov story, which is likely to appeal to both general and specialist readers.†―Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“In this new volume Helen Rappaport mines a trove of fresh material as she uncovers the lost lives of the daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra.†―Buffalo News“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. Readers will be swept up in the author's leisurely yet informative narrative as she sheds new light on the lives of the four daughters.†―Publishers Weekly (starred review)“The haunting cover photograph of the Romanov sisters will draw readers, and the extensive bibliography will aid those who want to learn more.†―Booklist“As shocking and immediate as a thriller... [A] gripping read.†―People magazine (3 ½ stars) on The Last Days of the Romanovs“Rappaport offers an absorbing, perceptive, and detailed picture of a constitutional monarchy in crisis.†―Publishers Weekly on A Magnificent Obsession“An absorbing account of the making of a queen through her awful, protracted grief.†―Kirkus Reviews on A Magnificent Obsession“Quite simply, stunning. . . . Chilling and poignant, this is how history books should be written.†―Alison Weir, author of Henry VIII: The King and His Court on The Last Days of the Romanovs“A fluid and astute writer, Rappaport delivers a historically discerning portrait of Victoria in the 1860s.†―Booklist on A Magnificent Obsession
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Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First edition (June 3, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781250020208
ISBN-13: 978-1250020208
ASIN: 1250020204
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6.4 x 1.6 x 9.5 inches
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4.3 out of 5 stars
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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.
I came very close to not requesting a review copy of this book. I thought there was no point. I thought I'd reached my limit on Romanov books - they rarely contain anything new, they're all drawing on the same primary source material and sadly, the Romanovs have reached a point at which they don't even really seem like real people anymore. They're more like copies of characters in some old novel.I am so glad that I went ahead and read this - not only is it one of my few five-star reads so far this year, it will probably become one of my favorite Romanov books of all time. Rappaport is a brilliant writer and researcher. She has accomplished what I did not think was possible - taught me many new things about life in Imperial Russia, about the lives of these four young women and why I should care about them and given me an eerily real sense of that long-ago time.My e-galley copy is filled with highlighted passages and notes - many of them noting places with brand-new anecdotes from previously unpublished sources. I kept coming across them with genuine delight and surprise - I've been reading about the Romanovs for twenty years and never come across some of these stories. Rappaport also a good ear for excerpting funny, poignant and revealing passages from the girls' letters and diaries. You get a very good sense of their individual voices from reading this book.I feel as though - for the first time - I can actually tell the girls apart and that the differences in their personalities are a revelation. I have a much more nuanced understanding of the Romanov family. Rappaport also managed the almost unthinkable in getting me to feel empathy for the Empress Alexandra. I am not a big fan of hers and believe she was an utterly disastrous ruler, wife and (even) mother. Rappaport looks sensitively at her background and helped me understand Alexandra's troubled mind while not excusing her actions.All in all, a highly recommended work of non-fiction. Despite having received an eBook for review, I will immediately purchase a hardcover copy to add to my collection - it's that good!Disclaimer: I received an advance eGalley from the publisher for review.
The title of this book could be "More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romanov Sisters." Overall, it was mildly interesting, and in some places it was very interesting. I don't know that this is the author's fault--these girls just led VERY restricted lives. The only time they were consistently involved with the world outside their family was when they were nurses during WWI. Also, the representation of both Alexandra and Rasputin was much "nicer" than the typical picture. Rappaport obviously sympathizes a lot with Alexandra is frequently seems to be justifying her self-isolation and constant illnesses. Rasputin appears as a real healer and miracle-worker with very little mention of his documented licentious behavior. The rationale for his murder was never made clear, nor was there much discussion of its effect on the four sisters. I read the whole book, but only because I have some kind of obsession about finishing any book I have started.
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