Anastasia, Carolyn Meyer
Anastasia, Carolyn Meyer
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Anastasia
The Last Grand Duchess

Author: Carolyn Meyer

Narrator: Renée Raudman

Unabridged: 3 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/15/2006

Synopsis

Award-winning author Carolyn Meyer introduces readers to the unforgettable Anastasia Romanov, whose idyllic life is forever changed with the coming of World War I.

In this fictionalized journal, Anastasia Romanov lives again. Through her eyes, we witness the day-to-day splendor the czar's family experienced before the onslaught of the Russian Revolution. However, one senses also that crowding the outskirts of Anastasia's ornate diary are hundreds of thousands of teeming serfs, just beginning to percolate.

About Carolyn Meyer

Carolyn Meyer is the author of more than forty books for middle school and young adult readers, including Isabel, Jewel of Castilla for the Royal Diaries series. Where the Broken Heart Still Beats, White Lilacs, Drummers of Jericho, Gideon's People, and Jubilee Journey were all named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Her novel, Mary, Bloody Mary, was named a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on June 21, 2017

This was the book that launched my love affair with Russia. I read it at age 12, fell in love with the Romanov family and Russia, and promptly went out and bought a Teach Yourself Russian in Three Months set (with accompanying CASSETTES, which lets you know how long ago this was!). Ten years later,......more

Goodreads review by Arushi on February 09, 2013

"Oh Anastasia, what did they do to you in the movie?" was my first thought when I began reading the book. And when I was finished with it, I was not surprised to find that I was crying. Because naive, beautiful, captured Anastasia was going to die very soon after her last entry, and even though I kn......more

Goodreads review by Faith on January 14, 2019

3.5......more

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