Four Sisters

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the Russian Revolutions of 1917 but little attention has been paid to the Romanov princesses. In Four Sisters acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport puts them centre stage and offers listeners the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia. We see almost for the first time their journey from a childhood of enormous privilege throughout which they led a very sheltered life to young womanhood - their first romantic crushes their hopes and dreams the difficulty of coping with a mother who was a chronic invalid and a haemophiliac brother and latterly the revolution and its terrible consequences.