The Romanov Sisters

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.)