5/24/2023 0 Comments The family romanov![]() They are timeless and seem to represent not just the lost world of old tsarist Russia but also the ruthless and arbitrary brutality of the revolution that destroyed them. It is impossible to resist the lure of those touching, and now iconic, images of Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia in their pretty white lace dresses and large picture hats. You only have to look at any of the illustrated books on the Romanovs to see how incredibly photogenic they were. I wanted, with a passion, to tell the story of those four lovely, much photographed but historically neglected sisters. ![]() Walking the streets of the city, and more importantly, going out into the Koptyaki Forest where the family’s bodies were dumped after they were murdered in July 1918, left an indelible impression on my mind and my creative imagination. ![]() Sense of place is very important to me as a writer, and I was particularly gripped by it when I went to Western Siberia. They were constantly in my head after I visited Ekaterinburg in the summer of 2007 to research my first Romanov book, Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs. ![]() I have always been haunted by the story of the four Romanov sisters. ![]()
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