My MIL likes to read biographies and for Christmas last year, I gave her a book about the Romanov sisters. She gave it to me to read after she finished it. It was extremely interesting. I did not realize until I finished it that it was the second book the author had written about the Romanovs - the first book focused on the last two weeks of their lives. What struck me and what I found very disturbing was that it all was extremely familiar. Like we are reliving it. The gaslighting. The abuse and using of people to advance a cause. The complete inability of those in more privileged classes to see what is going on around them. The scapegoating. The marriage arrangements for power.
They hated the Czar and they really hated his wife, but in the end, they had quick deaths; it was their children who were brutalized. It was hard to read.
My MIL likes to read biographies and for Christmas last year, I gave her a book about the Romanov sisters. She gave it to me to read after she finished it. It was extremely interesting. I did not realize until I finished it that it was the second book the author had written about the Romanovs - the first book focused on the last two weeks of their lives. What struck me and what I found very disturbing was that it all was extremely familiar. Like we are reliving it. The gaslighting. The abuse and using of people to advance a cause. The complete inability of those in more privileged classes to see what is going on around them. The scapegoating. The marriage arrangements for power.
They hated the Czar and they really hated his wife, but in the end, they had quick deaths; it was their children who were brutalized. It was hard to read.
Go digging through the soviet archives sometime.
Who’s the Author?
Helen Rappaport.
Excellent, TY 👍🏽😎