This fictive diary of [13-year-old] Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas and Czarina Alexandra? covers the last five years of her life, taking us from her pampered life as a royal child, through the family's house arrest in 1917, to their exile in Siberia ? will fascinate children. --Kirkus Reviews25 April 1914 LivadiaPapa took us on another long walk. Mama and Alexei joined us later for a picnic, although Mama was feeling weak and needed her wheelchair. An odd thing happened. My sisters and I were picking wildflowers in a meadow, and Alexei was lying on a blanket nearby staring up at the clear blue sky, when suddenly he said, I wonder what's going to happen to us? We asked him what he meant, and he couldn't explain it--just that he had a strange feeling that something was going to happen, and that next year we wouldn't be here? Excerpted from Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess by Carolyn Meyer All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
