Museums On The Green: The Romanov Sisters

[@davidlogan4329]

This is the best interview with Rappaport.

[@virginiasoskin9082]

I first read Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra in about 1972 when I was in college. That book sparked an abiding amateur interest in all things Russian -- czardom, literature, architecture, plays, costume, palaces, the revolution, Stalin, Faberge, and so forth. I have read most of Helen's books and want to thank her for writing them! I would have loved to be a mouse on her shoulder as she was able access original documents, etc. We have been to St. Petersburg for 8 days in 2012 - not enough time, of course, but we saw a LOT in those days: the Hermitage with its Gold and Diamond Rooms, Catherine Palace in Pushkin, all the museums and churches. We used the Metro also, which was easy to use. We could have easily spent another week there. And now with the Faberge Museum open since our visit, and the Alexander Palace, which has opened for tourists, I would love to return but with the political situation being what it is, I don't consider it safe for a tourist to go there. Perhaps it still is, but we don't really know. It must help Helen a great deal to know Russian. We didn't know any Russian except for a few words but we managed to make ourselves understood with menus sometimes translated into English, or with pointing and saying, Da or Nyet.

[@Kimberly-cx9uv]

I really love Helen Rapapport and her books :)

[@rolandrothwell4840]

Helen is so brilliant 👏 very good historian

[@juanswart3125]

Recently bought one of Helen's book on the Russian Imperial Family.

[@Pistodog]

Thank you for posting this - very informative

[@wayneg7812]

Remarkable!

[@anderson357]

Has she met princes olga in Uk? Her grandmother was one of the tsars sisters and great grandmother the dowager empress Maria.

[@paulgee8113]

The Romanovs were such a great looking family . Descent GOD fearing people .

[@ljmcdonald2703]

The girls English was good but they made multiple spelling mistakes particularly Anastasia, they spoke it with a Scottish-Irish accent

[@Ire308]

It was one of the murderers, Yurovsky, who mention about the bullets bouncing back off the girls. The bayonets wouldn't penetrate them either because of the diamonds sew into their under garments. I don't think the story of the hidden jewels is a myth.

[@virginiasoskin9082]

His saying that the bullets bounced off the girls would have made sense if he were trying to cover up the fact that he and his men were very poor shots. It sounds like something a psychopath would say to disguise the fact of being a lousy shot or half drunk when they did the shooting -- nobody really wanted to kill these lovely defenseless children but an order from Lenin was followed or you yourself got shot.