Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters

[mariness]

I'm still on a major biography kick.

The Romanov Sisters is a detailed look of the lives of Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, who had the initial luck and later massive misfortune, to be the daughters of Nicholas II, last tsar of Russia

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[dewline]

They didn't set out to be cautionary tales after death...but no one does, right?

[mariness]

Nope.

But the point of this book was to provide a humanizing touch to the Russian Revolution and give lots of trivia about the Romanovs, and instead, the main thing I got out of it was vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. Not the intended point at all.

[dewline]

Everyone finds their own things in every book they read. This is normal. I doubt there's an author alive or dead who wants that to happen, but it always does.