Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
27 March 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
27 March 2014456 pages
9781447250487Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Rappaport is insightful in her analysis of Alexandra's vulnerability [and] illuminates the precise influence of Grigori Rasputin . . . An astoundingly intimate tale of domestic life lived in the crucible of power.Observer
[Rappaport] brings to Four Sisters an encyclopedic knowledge of the minutiae of Nicholas and Alexandra's family life . . . Four Sisters is a study in unity. It demonstrates resoundingly the strength of family ties.The Telegraph
A well-written gem . . . a fascinating, in-depth and comprehensively researched study of the imperial daughters.Daily Express
Evocative and beautifully researched and told, this is narrative history at its best.Bookseller
