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The four daughters of Russia’s last Emperor continue to fascinate people around the world more than a century after their brutal killings in Ekaterinburg, 1918. Often thought of as a single unit using a nickname, they sometimes used to refer to all four of them, OTMA, seen as beautiful young ladies in white dresses, or as dutiful wartime nurses, or even as naïve young women who had few friends and little contact with the world outside the palace, their lives have been steeped in modern-day mythology. However, with the opening of the Russian State Archives following the fall of the Soviet Union, the letters and diaries of the Grand Duchesses are now revealing interesting and fascinating details about their sadly short lives. · · ─────── ·•· ─────── · · This video is produced as part of the project for the book “The Romanov Royal Martyrs”, which is an impressive 512-page book, featuring nearly 200 black & white photographs, and a 56-page photo insert of more than 80 high-quality images, colorized by the accla
