The spectre of hemophilia–inherited from Alexandra, thru her mother Princess Alice and Alice’s mother Queen Victoria, was a factor in the plans for their future lives. She brings OTMA alive collectively and individually. Massie brought us the harrowing story of their parents and their little brother, Tzarevich Alexi–the hemophiliac whose genetically transmitted illness brought the family to the edge of disaster when Alexanadra befriended Rasputin, little has been written about each of the girls.Īuthor Helen Rapport writes with the help of documents released after the fall of the Soviet Union and beyond. We knew, for example, that with their mother, they nursed wounded soldiers in World War I and, of course, we knew of their tragic end. But what do we know OF them, beyond the cute collective name? Until this book, we knew little beyond what was told of the family as a whole. It stood for the first initials of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia–the four daughters of Tzar Nicholas II and his Empress, Alexandra. If you know anything of Russian royal history, you likely recognize the acronymn OTMA.
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