Quotes from Helen Rappaport

At the moment I would be less afraid of measles than of the revolutionaries.

together, and in Russia. Ekaterinburg was their Calvary.

Does it not seem strange, hatred and bloodshed and all the horrors of war- and there simply Paradise, sunshine and flowers and peace.

It was first love and it was painful. But it also had no future whatsoever.

though once more there were whisperings that the imperial sisters should not stoop so low in their friendships and that they looked scruffy and 'unroyal'.28

They had 'decided … to make themselves as ugly as they could' by soaking up the sun, hatless, on the journey from Livadia, 'so that Carol should not fall in love with any of them'.

quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never emulate and were reluctantly compelled to admire'.