Books by Helen Rappaport
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review 1: It was very interesting, but so much information about the last Romanovs was destroyed, some by them at the end (Alexandra burned a lot of diaries and letters so that they couldn't be used as evidence against her in the trial she thought was coming), and the family kept so much t...
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review 1: Hmm. This was really pretty well done, hard to classify. Perhaps a "biography of a marriage/widowhood." Interesting observations, especially for British history buffs, lots of details on Albert, Victoria, WHY it seemed everyone took Albert's illness lightly at first, and chron...
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review 1: Some of this book was a little TOO academic for my taste, but overall it was a sad insight into the last 14 days of the Romanovs' lives. I particularly liked the small little details the author unearthed, like when the cleaning women came in to scrub the family's floors in the I...
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review 1: I very much enjoyed this interesting and thoroughly researched portrait of the four grand duchesses of the House of Romanov. Helen Rappaport concentrates on the day-to-day lives of the sisters, rather than reminding us of their eventual ghastly fate. She uses a multitude of sourc...
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review 1: After finishing The Romanov Sisters, The Last Days of the Romanovs seemed a logical choice for my next read. It picks up virtually where The Romanov Sisters left off. The book is told in a countdown form, with each chapter representing one day. It describes the background of e...