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a fascinating, in-depth and comprehensively researched study of the imperial daughters.Įvocative and beautifully researched and told, this is narrative history at its best. It demonstrates resoundingly the strength of family ties.Ī well-written gem. brings to Four Sisters an encyclopedic knowledge of the minutiae of Nicholas and Alexandra's family life. An astoundingly intimate tale of domestic life lived in the crucible of power. Rappaport is insightful in her analysis of Alexandra's vulnerability illuminates the precise influence of Grigori Rasputin. 'An astoundingly intimate tale of domestic life lived in the crucible of power' – Observer Show Less Product Details

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. 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.

Drawing on their own letters and diaries, she paints a vivid picture of their lives in the dying days of the Romanov. In Four Sisters acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. BIC Classification: 1DVUA 3JJF BGH HBJD HBLW HBTV4. 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. Description for Four Sisters:the Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses Paperback.