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Helen Rappaport

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Bromley, The United Kingdom

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Helen Rappaport is a historian specialising in the Victorian period, with a particular interest in Queen Victoria and the Jamaican healer and caregiver, Mary Seacole. She also has written extensively on late Imperial Russia, the 1917 Revolution and the Romanov family. Her love of all things Victorian springs from her childhood growing up near the River Medway where Charles Dickens lived and worked. Her passion for Russian came from a Russian Special Studies BA degree course at Leeds University. In 2017 she was awarded an honorary D.Litt by Leeds for her services to history. She is also a member of the Royal Historical Society, the Genealogical Society, the Society of Authors and the Victorian Society. She lives in the West Country, and has ...more

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	The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra 3.89 avg rating — 24,736 ratings — published 2014 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg 4.05 avg rating — 6,299 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family 3.81 avg rating — 2,089 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge 3.94 avg rating — 1,546 ratings — published 2016 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy 3.83 avg rating — 1,434 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Victoria Letters: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen (The Official Companion to the ITV Series) by Helen Rappaport (Goodreads Author), Daisy Goodwin (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.11 avg rating — 1,174 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War 3.76 avg rating — 1,281 ratings — published 2022 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had 3.57 avg rating — 1,070 ratings — published 2025 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conspirator: Lenin in Exile 3.89 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon 3.80 avg rating — 129 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Life is also meaningful without being married’, she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, ‘one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make”
― Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

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“History may have condemned him many times over for being a weak and reactionary tsar, but he was, without doubt, the most exemplary of royal fathers.”
― Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

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“Show kindness to all, be gentle and loving, then all will love you”
― Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

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Which book would you like to read for our January 15 - March 15 European Royalty group read?

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport

16 votes, 28.1%

Her Highness, the Traitor by Susan Higginbotham

14 votes, 24.6%

The Sister Queens by Sophie Perinot

10 votes, 17.5%

Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd

9 votes, 15.8%

The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet: Comprising Sunrise in the West, The Dragon at Noonday, The Hounds of Sunset, Afterglow and Nightfall by Edith Pargeter

3 votes, 5.3%

George III: America's Last King by Jeremy Black

3 votes, 5.3%

The Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross

2 votes, 3.5%

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