History and Russian buffs will love this history of the last
Tsar and his family. Although the title seems to indicate the book will revolve
around the four Romanov daughters more than half of the book is spent with
their mother Alexandra and her ills, their brother Alexie who suffers from Hemophilia
and the influence of Rasputin.
Perhaps
because the girls were so sheltered from the public little actual “news” is
available to write about them, their lives, their schooling and private
lives. The book reads quickly and is
interesting, especially as it relates the family to their English and German
relatives.
If you are hoping to read the bloody details of the family’s
end, you will need to find another book as this one ends with their banishment
from public and royal life. You will, however, discover a family that cherishes
normality and each other.
4 of 5 stars
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