Anastasia (17 page)

Anastasia’s diary uses both Old Style and New Style dates, as her mother did in hers.

A
NASTASIA’S
F
AMILY:

Nicholas Alexandrovitch Romanov — tsar; Anastasia’s father

Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov — tsaritsa; Anastasia’s mother

Grand Duchesses; Anastasia’s Sisters

Olga

Tatiana

Maria (Marie, Mashka)

Alexei — tsarevitch; Anastasia’s brother

Marie Feodorovna Romanov — tsar’s mother; Anastasia’s grandmother

Olga Alexandrovna (Aunt Olga) — tsar’s sister

Xenia Alexandrovna (Aunt Xenia) — tsar’s sister

Alexander Mikhailovitch (Uncle Sandro) — Aunt Xenia’s husband and tsar’s cousin

Irina, Andrew, Theodore, Dmitri, Vassily, Rostislav, Nikita — children of Xenia and Sandro; Anastasia’s cousins

Michael Alexandrovitch Romanov (Uncle Misha) — tsar’s brother

Nicholas Nicholaievitch Romanov — tsar’s cousin; commander-in-chief of the armies

George Mikhailovitch Romanov — tsar’s cousin; husband of Queen Marie of Greece; father of Nina; Uncle Sandro’s brother

Elizabeth of Hesse (Aunt Ella) — tsaritsa’s sister

Ernst Ludwig of Hes`se (Uncle Erni) — tsaritsa’s brother

Wilhelm II, Kaiser (Cousin Willy) — tsaritsa’s cousin

F
RIENDS OF THE
R
OMANOVS:

Father Grigory (Rasputin) — holy man; adviser to tsaritsa

Anya Vyrubova — tsaritsa’s close friend

Lili Dehn — tsaritsa’s close friend

Members of the Imperial Suite

Baroness Buxhoeveden

Countess Hendrikov

Count Benckendorff

Prince Dolgoruky

Dr. Botkin — family physician

Gleb Botkin — his son; Anastasia’s friend

Dr. Derevenko — Alexei’s physician

Emir of Bokhara — exotic visitor

Crown Prince Carol of Romania — Olga’s suitor

King Ferdinand — his father

Queen Marie — his mother

Nicholas Dmitrievitch Demekov (Kolya) — Mashka’s friend

*Lieutenant Boris — Anastasia’s dancing partner

*Mrs. Phelps — English visitor

*Officer Saltikov — Tatiana’s dancing partner

M
EMBERS OF THE
H
OUSEHOLD,
S
ERVANTS,
O
THERS
:

Shura — Anastasia’s nurse-governess

Children’s Tutors

Monsieur Gilliard

Mr. Gibbes

Professor Petrov

Sailor Derevenko — Alexei’s sailor-guardian

Sailor Nagorny — Alexei’s sailor-guardian

Father Vasilev — family priest

Jim — American door attendant

Carl Fabergé — jeweler; creator of Easter eggs

Madame Gheringer — supplier of scarves, gloves, etc.

*Dunyasha — Olga’s maid

*Natasha — Dunyasha’s daughter

*Vladya — Natasha’s fiancé

*Miss Kropotkin — children’s music teacher

*Lutka — servant

*Sonia Petrovna Izvolsky — servant

*Kremikov — court photographer

M
ILITARY AND
P
OLITICAL
O
FFICIALS:

General Kornilov — respected leader who informed the tsaritsa of arrest

Alexander Kerensky — Minister of Justice

Colonel Yevgeny Kobylinsky — officer in charge of prisoners

Commissar Rodionov — officer who replaced Kobylinsky

Commissar Vassily Yakovlev — representative of Bolshevik government in Tobolsk

Commandant Avdeyev — head of guards at Ekaterinburg

Commandant Yurovsky — head of Secret Police

O
THER
I
MPORTANT
F
IGURES:

Mathilde Kschessinska —
prima ballerina assoluta
of the Imperial Ballet

Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin — Bolshevik leader

Leon Trotsky — Bolshevik leader

Prince Felix Yussupov — husband of the tsar’s niece, Irina; assassin of Rasputin

F
AMILY
P
ETS:

Vanka — Alexei’s donkey

Eira — tsaritsa’s Scottish terrier

Ortino — Tatiana’s French bulldog

Joy — Alexei’s spaniel

Jimmy — Anastasia’s spaniel

Long ago, Carolyn Meyer fell in love with the story of Anastasia Romanov, the daughter of the last tsar of Russia. “The movies made her life seem so romantic, like a fairy tale. Years ago I saw a movie starring Ingrid Bergman as Anastasia. Later, I saw the animated version of the story. Those movies always made it seem as though everything turned out beautifully for Anastasia. I was broken-hearted when I found out the truth.

“Anastasia was born in this century. It was hard for me to imagine a girl born about the same time as my mother living a life of such incredible wealth and privilege. I loved looking at photographs of the Romanovs’ palaces and their enormous yacht and luxurious train. And those marvelous Fabergé Easter eggs! But I hated reading about what really happened to the Grand Duchess Anastasia and her family — the part you don’t see in the movies. The tragedy made me want to weep — and in fact I did, as I wrote the final pages.”

Carolyn Meyer is the acclai
med author of nearly sixty books for middle school and young adult readers. Among her many award-winning novels are
Victoria Rebels
;
Cleopatra Confesses
;
Marie, Dancing
, a Book Sense Pick; and
Mary, Bloody Mary
, an ABA’s Pick of the Lists, an NCSS-CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and you can visit her at www.ReadCarolyn.com.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use the following:

Cover art by Mélanie Delon.

Filigree on front and back cover by albumkoretsky/Shutterstock.

Crown appearing on spine and throughout interiors, ibid.

Anastasia, Library of Congress.

Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra, Culver Pictures.

The imperial family, Library of Congress.

Tsar Nicholas II with his son, ibid.

Rasputin, AP Images.

Tsarskoe Selo, Steve Raymer/Corbis.

Peterhof Palace, Sergey Peterman/Shutterstock.

The Winter Palace, Library of Congress.

Tsar’s library at the Winter Palace, a painting by Eduard Petrovich Hau, akg-images/The Image Works.

Livadia Palace, Hana/Shutterstock.

Pierre Gilliard with Olga and Tatiana Romanova, Corbis.

The
Standart
, Library of Congress.

The imperial family, SuperStock.

Nevsky Prospect, North Wind Picture Archives.

Fabergé egg with red cross, the Granger Collection.

Alexei, Corbis.

Tsar Nicholas II with Alexei at the front, 1916, the Bridgeman Art Library.

The imperial family in the garden at Tsarskoe Selo, 1917, Library of Congress.

Tsar Nicholas under guard, ibid.

The imperial family in exile, Culver Pictures.

Ipatiev House,
Albert Harlingue/Roger-Viollet/
The Image Works.

Burial ceremony, Sovfoto/Eastfoto.