Covering the war years, when reading this you can forget the Romanovs were an elite family, Czars, and remember they were as human as the rest of us, with a father/Czar who loved his children--and chopped down a hell of a lot of trees! You come to realize several things: the Romanovs weren't sitting on tier proverbial fannies during the war; on no, Alexandra & her eldest daughters Olga & Tatiana worked as nurses in a military hospital while Anastasia & Maria visited the infirmaries to cheer up the wounded soldiers. Yes, Nicholas II was an inept military leader, but his family did not deserve to die this way--or to have acid poured over their dead bodies. It also renders all 'Anastasia' movies to be pure BS. Sorry, folks, they're gone. My god, she was only 17 when they murdered her. Reminds me exactly why we distrusted the Soviet Union all those years.