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|title=Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
|author=Helen Rappaport
|publisher=Macmillan
|date=March 2014
|website=http://www.helenrappaport.com/
|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.
If this book appeals then we can also recommend [[25 Chapters of My Life: The Memoirs of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna by Olga Alexandrovna, Paul Kulikovsky, Sue Woolmans and Karen Roth-Nicholls]], [[Rasputin: A Short Life by Frances Welch]] and [[Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith]].
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