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Decembrists --- Décabristes --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Volkonskai︠a︡, Marii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, --- Siberia (Russia) --- Russia --- Russie --- Exiles --- Biography. --- History --- Histoire

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On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. 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, who - perhaps inevitably - have been seen as minor players in the drama. In Four Sisters, however, acclaimed biographer Helen Rappaport, puts them centre stage and offers readers the most authoritative account yet of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. Drawing on their own letters and diaries and other hitherto unexamined primary sources, she paints a vivid picture of their lives in the dying days of the Romanov dynasty. We see, almost for the first time, their journey from a childhood of enormous privilege, throughout which they led a very sheltered and largely simple 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 haeomophiliac brother, and, latterly, the trauma of the revolution and its terrible consequences.

Nobility --- Olʹga Nikolaevna, --- Tati︠a︡na Nikolaevna, --- Marii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, --- Anastasii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, --- Nicholas --- Romanov, House of. --- Family. --- Russia --- History

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Maria Theresa, --- #GGSB: Geschiedenis (Biografieen) --- Maria Theresia --- Marie-Therèse --- Marii︠a︡ Terezii︠a︡, --- Maria Theresia, --- Maria Teresa, --- Mária Terézia, --- Geschiedenis (Biografieen)

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A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen. Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on Marie-Antoinette's story. Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how, from the outset, Marie-Antoinette refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, Maria-Theresa, bravely took over the helm from Louis XVI after the collapse of his morale, and, when revolution broke out, listened to the Third Estate and worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it.

Queens --- Marie Antoinette, --- Marii︠a︡ Antonii︠a︡ Avstriĭskai︠a︡, --- María Antonia, --- France --- History --- Marie-Antoinette [Queen of France] --- Maria Antonietta,

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Mary, --- Scotland --- Ecosse --- History --- Kings and rulers --- Biography --- Histoire --- Mary Stuart, --- Marie Stuart, --- Stuart, Marie, --- Maria Stuart, --- Stuart, Maria, --- Stuart, Mary, --- Maria Stuarda, --- Stuarda, Maria, --- Marii︠a︡ Sti︠u︡art, --- Sti︠u︡art, Marii︠a︡, --- Mary Stewart, --- Stewart, Mary, --- Biography. --- Màiri, --- Stiùbhart, Màiri, --- Màiri Stiùbhart,