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Author Bryn Turnbull entrusts this well-known story to the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, eldest daughter of Nicolas II and Alexandra. The book scored an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars from the 30 respondents.Ī unique portrayal of the Russian Revolution featuring the story of the Romanovs.

Our First Impressions reviewers were impressed with Bryn Turnbull's historical novel The Last Grand Duchess, which narrates the story of Olga Romanov. At turns glittering and harrowing, The Last Grand Duchess is a story about dynasty, duty, and love, but above all, it's the story of a family who would choose devotion to each other over everything-including their lives.A historical novel that tells the story of the doomed Russian royal family the Romanovs through the eyes of eldest daughter Olga. But when tensions run high and supplies run low, the controversy over Rasputin grows into fiery protest, and calls for revolution threaten to end three hundred years of Romanov rule.

As troubling rumors about her parents trickle in from the front, Olga dares to hope that a budding romance might survive whatever the future may hold. Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits, assisting in surgeries and tending to the wounded bodies and minds of Russia's military officers.

But as war approaches, the palaces of Russia are transformed. Olga's only escape from the seclusion of Alexander Palace comes from the grand tea parties her aunt hosts amid the shadow court of Saint Petersburg-a world of opulent ballrooms, scandalous flirtation, and whispered conversation.

But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for her and her three sisters: hiding from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the tsarina has come to rely. This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Romanov, the first daughter of the last tsar Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe.