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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
This book has had me talking about nothing but the Romanovs for a month, and I’ll tell you right now I’ll be thinking about this family for a very long time.
This book is extremely well written, interesting, melancholy and sweet, and though I knew how the story was going to end, so so sad.
It doesn’t get very much into the specific politics of the revolution, so I went and found a documentary on the revolution in order to have a more well rounded understanding of what was happening in Russia in a broader scope, which I’d recommend!
This book is extremely well written, interesting, melancholy and sweet, and though I knew how the story was going to end, so so sad.
It doesn’t get very much into the specific politics of the revolution, so I went and found a documentary on the revolution in order to have a more well rounded understanding of what was happening in Russia in a broader scope, which I’d recommend!
Not sure why I never wrote a review for this, but it is a book I had wanted on my shelf for a very long time. As someone who’s been fascinated with the Romanovs since childhood, this book was everything I wanted. It’s an intimate and personal look into the lives of the Romanovs - focused on Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia- from infancy to the day of their execution. It’s a tragic tale of war, politics, and family in a quickly changing world. It was a captivating read and not difficult. I recommend it highly.
Very interesting insight on the lives of the Romonov family, highlighting accounts by and about the daughters. Can be a little dense at times, but overall, a great read.
I enjoyed this, if enjoy is the right word, which I think perhaps not... Definitely will read the authors other book about the royal family in general and what went down on the last days.
How sad. They should have married off the older girls when they had an opportunity. At least, maybe, someone would have survived. What a world.
How sad. They should have married off the older girls when they had an opportunity. At least, maybe, someone would have survived. What a world.
The Romanov have always fascinated me, and I make a point to get my hands on any book about the last Imperial family that I can. The Romanov Sisters gives us amazing insight into the lives of the four Romanov daughters: Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. It does also touch a little on the entire family as a whole, including Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and the Tsarevitch Alexei, but its primary focus is on the daughters. Rappaport has done painstaking amounts of research in order to write this account, and I love that I learned SO MUCH MORE about the family than I ever could have imagined.
Despite their tragic end in 1918, The Romanov Sisters also gives us glimmers of the happy lives they lived before the Revolution broke out. This is something that I'm so very thankful for, giving me as a reader a bit more of an upbeat time rather than dreary and gloomy situations as they live their lives in captivity. The writing is very well done and documented, with its primary sources coming from diaries and letters written by the family. This book took me back to Imperial Russia and really immersed me in the world of the Imperial family!
Despite their tragic end in 1918, The Romanov Sisters also gives us glimmers of the happy lives they lived before the Revolution broke out. This is something that I'm so very thankful for, giving me as a reader a bit more of an upbeat time rather than dreary and gloomy situations as they live their lives in captivity. The writing is very well done and documented, with its primary sources coming from diaries and letters written by the family. This book took me back to Imperial Russia and really immersed me in the world of the Imperial family!
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An incredibly detailed and intimate account of the Romanov family, as well as an excellent history book describing the factors which led to the fall of Imperial Russia and ultimately the executions of the family. An excellent read that I highly recommend to anyone interested in historical non-fiction.
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I flew this. I have an interest in the fall of Tsarist Russia, and this book has been on my TBR shelf for a while. It offers a look at a deeply private and spiritual family plagued by health issues, trying to live as normal a life as a royal family can in the midst of political upheaval. What is saddest to me is that the lives of these four girls just seem so sheltered and tragic.