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THE ROMANOV SISTERS HELEN RAPPAPORT  THE ROMANOV SISTERS The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra ST. MARTIN’S PRESS NEW YORK In memory of Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanova four extraordinary young women 693GG_TXT.indd 5 29/10/2013 16:17 693GG_TXT.indd 6 29/10/2013 16:17 Contents List of Illustrations x Glossary of Names xi Author’s Note xvii Prologue – The Room of the First and Last Door 1 One – Mother Love 9 Two – La Petite Duchesse 26 Three – My God! What a Disappointment! . . . A Fourth Girl 44 Four – The Hope of Russia 63 Five – The Big Pair and The Little Pair 82 Six – The Shtandart 97 Seven – Our Friend 109 Eight – Royal Cousins 123 Nine – In St Petersburg We Work; But at Livadia We Live 141 Ten – Cupid by the Thrones 160 Eleven – The Little One Will Not Die 176 693GG_TXT.indd 7 29/10/2013 16:17 Twelve – Lord Send Happiness to Him, My Beloved One 189 Thirteen – God Save the Tsar 207 Fourteen – Sisters of Mercy 229 Fifteen – We Cannot Drop Our Work in the Hospitals 243 Sixteen – The Outside Life 255 Seventeen – Terrible Things Are Going on in St Petersburg 275 Eighteen – Goodbye. Don’t Forget Me 298 Nineteen – On Freedom Street 322 Twenty – Thank God We Are Still in Russia and Still Together 339 Tweny-one – They Knew It Was the End When I Was With Them 356 Twenty-two – Prisoners of the Ural Regional Soviet 370 Epilogue – Victims of Repression 377 Acknowledgements 382 Notes 386 Bibliography 448 Index 465 693GG_TXT.indd 8 29/10/2013 16:17 List of Illustrations ix 693GG_TXT.indd 9 29/10/2013 16:17 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS x 693GG_TXT.indd 10 29/10/2013 16:17 Glossary of Names Listed below are the most frequently occurring names in the text, in the form in which they are generally cited. OTMA = the sisters’ own acronym for Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia AKSH: acronym of Alexander Konstantinovich Shvedov, one of Olga’s favourite officers in the Tsar’s Escort Alexandra (Shura) Tegleva: OTMA’s nurse and later general maid; married Pierre Gilliard Alice: Princess Alice of Great Britain, later Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexandra’s mother Alicky: Queen Victoria’s pet name for Alexandra, used to distinguish her from Alix, who in the British royal family was Alexandra, Princess of Wales Alix: Nicholas’s pet name for his wife Alexandra Anna (Nyuta) Demidova: Alexandra’s maid in waiting Anna Vyrubova: Alexandra’s close friend and confidante; later appointed a maid of honour Bibi: pet name for Varvara Vilchikovskaya, OT’s friend and nurse at the annexe. Chemodurov: Terenty Chemodurov, Nicholas’s valet. Count Benkendorf: Pavel Benkendorf, chief marshal and master of ceremonies at the imperial court Count Frederiksz: Vladimir Frederiksz, head of the imperial household Count Grabbe: Nikolay Grabbe, commander of the Tsar’s Escort Derevenko: Andrey Derevenko, Alexey’s sailor dyadka Dickie: Louis of Battenburg, later Lord Mountbatten, OTMA’s cousin xi 693GG_TXT.indd 11 29/10/2013 16:17

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