Audrey Carlson’s Reviews > The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra > Status Update

Although I cannot understand where Alexandra is coming from, with her chronic health issues - I wonder how public perception of the imperial family would have been changed if she had done more public facing service and appearances more often.

I have found up to this point, the book over Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia in any significant detail; Only recently exploring Olga’s development as a teenager into a young woman. The book, up to this point, presents the sisters as accessories to the focus of the political climate in Russia, their mother’s health, and Alexei.

“Alexei was clearly the center of their mother’s universe. As a result of which, the Romanov girls seemed doomed to a bland interchangeability forever in the shadows of their charismatic brother”