The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
This light, authorised and well-illustrated biography, based upon a series of intimate conversations, is charmingly composed and utterly absorbing....At the end Mr. Vorres uncovered a burning Russian patriotism interwoven with serene religious faith -- and an unaffected pleasure in her acceptance by a variety of ordinary men and women. (Sir Philip MagnusSunday Times)The story ... has an astonishing verisimilitude and pathos....It is obvious that, like her brother Nicholas II, Olga was of limited intelligence, but in here total lack of pretension, her refusal to be embittered by the atrocious circumstances of her later life, and her charity and kindness, she emerges from the book as a character of an almost Dostoyevskyan innocence and goodness. (Francis KingSunday Telegraph)Memoirs about the last Romanovs are hard to resist. ... there remains the appeal of the doomed family. (The Times, London)