Four sisters lost lives
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.
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps 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 brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Four Sisters is the most authoritative account yet of the lives of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Drawing on their own letters and diaries, Rappaport paints a vivid picture of the sisters' 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. Compellingly readable, meticulously researched and deeply moving, Four Sisters gives these young women a voice with a story that still resonates almost a century after their death.
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.
In Four Sisters 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.
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.
'An astoundingly intimate tale of domestic life lived in the crucible of power' – Observer
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 29 januari 2015
Aantal pagina's: 512
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Helen Rappaport
Tweede Auteur: Helen Rappaport
Hoofduitgeverij: Pan Books
Editie: Unabridged edition
Product breedte: 130 mm
Product hoogte: 36 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 131 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm
Verpakking lengte: 199 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 386 g
EAN: 9781447227175