{"product_id":"four-sisters-the-lost-lives-of-the-grand-romanov-duchesses-by-helen-rappaport","title":"Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Grand Romanov Duchesses by Helen Rappaport","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'An astoundingly intimate tale of domestic life lived in the crucible of power' -\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eFour Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eacclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Drawing on their own letters and diaries, she paints a vivid picture of their lives in the dying days of the Romanov dynasty. We see, almost for the first time, their journey from a childhood of enormous privilege, throughout which they led a very sheltered and largely simple life, to young womanhood - their first romantic crushes, their hopes and dreams, the difficulty of coping with a mother who was a chronic invalid and a haemophiliac brother, and, latterly, the trauma of the revolution and its terrible consequences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCompellingly readable, meticulously researched and deeply moving, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eFour Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egives these young women a voice, and allows their story to resonate for readers almost a century after their death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin House Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57270661513594,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/3406\/3009\/files\/9781447227175.webp?v=1789475929","url":"https:\/\/shop.pushkinhouse.org\/products\/four-sisters-the-lost-lives-of-the-grand-romanov-duchesses-by-helen-rappaport","provider":"Pushkin House Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}