Anastasia: The autobiography of H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia

A first-person memoir recounts upbringing in the imperial household, schooling and leisure, wartime service caring for the wounded, family worries over the heir’s haemophilia, the upheavals of revolution including arrest, exile to Tobolsk and transfer to Ekaterinburg, deprivation and the family’s murder, followed by an account of the narrator’s claimed survival, recovery, and flight to refuge in Bukovina. The narrative combines practical detail about daily discipline and study, hospital work, and travel with a pointed defense of parental reputations, brisk anecdotal episodes and a resilient sense of humor, organized into chronological parts spanning youthful years, wartime, arrest, exile, the Ekaterinburg period, and the aftermath.