Anastasia and Her Sisters

2015-04-07 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Release : 2015-04-07
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 281/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Anastasia and Her Sisters written by Carolyn Meyer. This book was released on 2015-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a heavy price to pay for royalty in this compelling—and true—story of Anastasia Romanov and her fellow grand duchesses of Russia, from an award-winning novelist. It’s summer in 1914 and the Romanovs are aboard the Standart, the Russian royal yacht. Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their four daughters, and the youngest child, Tsarevitch Alexei, are sailing to Romania to meet Crown Prince Carol and his parents. It seems like a fairy tale existence for the four grand duchesses, dressed in beautiful clothes, traveling from palace to palace. But it’s not. Life inside the palace is far from a fairy tale. The girls’ younger brother suffers from an excruciatingly painful and deadly blood disease, and their parents have chosen to shield the Russian people from the severity of the future tsar’s condition. The secrets and strain are hard on the family, and conditions are equally dire beyond the palace walls. Peasants suffer under the burden of extreme poverty and Tsar Nicholas’s leadership power weakens. And when the unthinkable happens—Germany declares war on Russia—nothing in Anastasia’s world will ever be the same.

The Romanov Sisters

2014-06-03 History

Author : Helen Rappaport
Release : 2014-06-03
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 212/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Romanov Sisters written by Helen Rappaport. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914

2013-10-29 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Release : 2013-10-29
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 written by Carolyn Meyer. This book was released on 2013-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Carolyn Meyer's ANASTASIA is back in print with a gorgeous new package! Anastasia is the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia. Anastasia is used to a life of luxury; her major concerns are how to get out of her detested schoolwork to play in the snow, go ice-skating, or have picnics. She wears diamonds and rubies, and every morning her mother, the princess, tells her which matching outfit she and her three sisters shall wear that day. It's a fairy tale life -- until everything changes with the outbreak of war between Russia and Germany. As Russia enters WWI, hunger and poverty grows among the peasants, and soon they are not pleased with their ruler. While the czar is trying win a war and save their country, the country is turning on the royal family. When her father and the rest of the family are imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, suddenly Anastasia understands what this war is costing the people. In the pages of her diary, Anastasia chronicles the wealth and luxury of her royal days, as well as the fall from power, and her uncertain fate.

Anastasia's Sisters

2015-04-29 History

Author : Raegan Baker
Release : 2015-04-29
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Anastasia's Sisters written by Raegan Baker. This book was released on 2015-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their names were Olga, Tatiana and Maria..... For nearly a century the life and death of Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of Russia's last Tsar, has fascinated thousands all over the world. Due to the myth of her survival from a communist firing squad, she has arguably emerged as the most famous member of the Romanov family. However Anastasia had three older sisters: Olga, Tatiana and Maria. They are often overlooked by history. Now for the first time ever, there is a book dedicated to these three young women, all slaughtered before the age of 25. This is the story of three individuals born into a world of glamour and eventually brutally dying in a half cellar far away from the palace rooms they once happily ran through as children and teenagers. This is their story.

My Story: Anastasia

2014-04-03

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Release : 2014-04-03
Genre :
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Book Rating : 775/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book My Story: Anastasia written by Carolyn Meyer. This book was released on 2014-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Tsar, leads a privileged life in the grand palaces of Russia. The First World War and the Bolshevik revolution are just about to erupt. With the royal family arrested and exiled to Siberia, the life Anastasia knows is swept away forever.

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