It spans four or five years of time, from when Anastasia’s 13 until after her 17th birthday. It’s primarily Anastasia’s story, one of her infatuation and romantic involvement with a palace guard who joins the Bolsheviks, in the end.
It’s a delicate balance, one that requires facts as well as enabling the reader to see past the facts to create a whole (albeit fictional) character.ĭunlap has decided to tackle the Romanov family and the years before the Russian revolution. Mostly, I think, because the author is taking real people and situations and trying to make them compelling and interesting while fitting in the structure bound by history. Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! First sentence: “We are surrounded by guards.”
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