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Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov (Snap Books: Queens and Princesses)

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Anastasia was a Romanov princess, a title that held much privilege in Russia. The family was from Kostroma. Her very handsome father was Tsar Nicholas II and her mother was Tsarina Alexandra. She also had three sisters and a sickly hemophiliac brother named Alexi. They owned seven palaces and even had an imperial train, but perhaps her father didn't want to spoil them because they "slept on hard cots without pillows."

Anastasia was a tomboy and her mother called her "the imp." She was very smart and was good at learning languages, but like many children, didn't want to study and would much rather stay outside. Now that was always one of her favorite things. She was born in 1901 and by the time she was seventeen there were major shifts in Russia. Her father had to go to the Russian front and there was great turmoil in the country. Her father "resigned," but that wasn't enough and they were soon under house arrest. Many people know about Anastasia, but was she murdered or was Anna Anderson, a woman who stepped forward many years later to claim she was the princess, the real item? It was a mystery that took more than seventy years to solve!

This slim book is a bare bones biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious princesses in history. This book will be sure to spark an interest in historical figures and unsolved mysteries. Inside there are many family portraits of Anastasia and her family, including the infamous one of them on the roof of a greenhouse in their Siberian exile. In the back of the book there is a glossary, an index and recommended book and internet sites. This is one of seven in the Queens and Princesses' series.