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Authors: Carolyn Meyer
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events
are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2015 by Carolyn Meyer
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935–
Anastasia and her sisters / Carolyn Meyer. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Tzar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them. Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4814-0326-9 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4814-0328-3 (eBook)
1. Anastasia, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901–1918—Juvenile fiction. [1. Anastasia, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901–1918—Fiction. 2. Princesses—Fiction. 3. Sisters—Fiction. 4. Diaries—Fiction. 5. Russia—History—Nicholas II, 1894–1917—Fiction. 6. Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917–1921—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M5685Am 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014003498
CONTENTS
Part I: Otma: The Grand Duchesses, 1911
Chapter 5: On the Sea and in the Forest
Chapter 9: Visitors and Visits
Chapter 14: A World Turned Upside Down
Chapter 17: A “Normal Routine”
Chapter 19: Good-bye to Tsarskoe Selo
Chapter 20: The Governor’s Mansion
Chapter 21: Making the Best of Things