Rappaport ( Magnificent Obsession), a specialist on Russian and 19th-century women’s history, works chronologically-a necessary step in understanding court intricacies and the major players involved-beginning with Alice, Princess of Hesse and daughter of Queen Victoria of England, whose own daughter, Alix, was to become the Empress of Russia. Nonetheless, the politics of the court were such that they affected all members of the royal family, particularly through WWI and the Russian Revolution, which claimed the lives of the Romanovs. The lives of the four daughters-Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia-of Nicholas and Alexandra, Tzar and Tzarina of Imperial Russia, have been both sentimentalized and overlooked in the years since the Russian Revolution.
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