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|summary=The lives of the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra of Russia - the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia - from their birth to the tragic end at Ekaterinburg during the revolution in 1981
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A few years ago, Helen Rappaport wrote and published [[Ekaterinburg : The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport|Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs]], a painstaking, chilling account of the final days and death of the last Tsar of Russia and his family. To a certain extent this biography is a prequel to that volume, an account of the short lives of OTMA, as they referred to themselves – the Tsar’s daughters Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia.
All too often, we might think of the quartet as being a photogenic but somewhat colourless unit, cruelly deprived of their adult lives and overshadowed by their fate before they had a chance to develop as personalities in their own right. After reading this book, we know this not to be the case. All four emerge as individual characters.
