![]() ![]() ![]() 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. The Romanov Sisters is an easy-read nonfiction book about the last Russian tsars four daughtersOlga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. 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. In Four Sisters acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia.ĭrawing on their own letters and diaries, she paints a vivid picture of their lives in the dying days of the Romanov dynasty. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Anastasia suffered from a weak muscle in her back and painful bunions, both of which sometimes affected her mobility. The Romanov children were not always healthy. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. She and Maria were nicknamed the Little Pair, while older sisters Olga and Tatiana were referred to as the Big Pair. ![]() 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. ![]()
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