Anastasia’s Album

1996 Little Brown/Madison Press oversize hardcover, British import. Hugh Brewster (Gilded Lives, Fatal The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World). Shielded from St Petersburg society, the last tsar’s four daughters enjoyed a simple life of almost cloudless happiness. Their evenings were spent with their parents, reading aloud and pasting snapshots into albums. Drawing on these precious personal keepsakes – long hidden in Russian archives – this work offers a glimpse into the intimate family life of the last Romanovs. Illustrated in scrapbook style with Anastasia’s own letters, photographs and watercolours, this album brings the youngest of the tsar’s daughters to life – a tomboy who scrambled up snowy mountains to sled down on a silver tray. Letters from Anastasia’s final heartbreaking days in captivity show that even the filthy conditions and the brutal treatment of her revolutionary jailers could not shake her faith. – Amazon