![]() ![]() This book is a slow burn each chapter is a day leading up to the murder of the family and their remaining servants. It’s really difficult, but it was a necessary read to understand the situation. ![]() The horrifying details, the truth about what happened here. ![]() ![]() We don’t get the gory details about brain matter and whatnot. Often, when we talk about the Romanovs and their demise, we don’t have the play-by-play what the planning, what was going on, how they were potentially in denial when they were led into that basement. Rappaport uses a compilation of firsthand and secondhand accounts to weave what was both going on in the house that the Romanovs would eventually die in, as well as the external support and efforts to try and get them out of there. This was a really painful read, especially if you’re probably reading this, you know how it’s going to end. If I had read this one cold, I wouldn’t have felt as emotional about their fate than I did when I read the other book first. I’m really glad I read that one before this one, because it really added to the emotional gravity of their last days since I understand the sisters and the relationship to each other and their mother a lot more. I picked this book up after reading Rappaport’s other book about the Romanov daughters, The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra. ![]()
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