The Romanov Sisters

Well-researched story of the Romanov Sisters though a large part of the book deals with their Mother and there were parts I found boring and just skimmed. I appreciated the insights into some of the reasons why England did not offer them refuge, and I learned about the personalities of the older two sisters, especially. Some of Anatasia's personality comes through, but there isn't much about Maria. perhaps because there just aren't many sources of information to give more details on her. It's so sad ... wrong people for the job, but not bad people, and the girls' lives were so isolated in large part due to their Mother.

Things I have learned from reading books about world history: If your country is in the midst of a revolution, and the government is in the process of being overthrown, it might be time to leave and find a different country to live in, lest you be killed for having literally any association whatsoever with the former government.

The author was a meticulous researcher, and that was good because I had basically no knowledge of Russian history prior to reading The Romanov Sisters. But it did get kind of dull and bogged down in the details in the middle, and it took quite a while to get to the action that you already know is coming. (I mean, it's right there in the title of the book.)

(Also, irrelevant but I found this interesting: when I was about halfway through with the book, I re-watched the movie Anastasia, which I had not seen since I was a child. I was surprised to discover that it is horrifically inaccurate. Rasputin is still just as terrifying in it as he was when I first watched it; however, if the movie had been historically accurate AT ALL, he wouldn't have even been in it for more than like, five minutes.)