Not everyone in Russia worships her father as she does, and the Germans are about to declare war on Russia. Anastasia begins to learn that all is not well in the outside world, either. Anastasia's younger brother, the future tsar, is a hemophiliac-a "bleeder" who cannot stop bleeding if he is cut or bruised. Slowly a hint of future trouble enters her happy, pampered life. She wears diamonds and rubies, and every morning her mother tells her which matching outfit she and her three sisters shall wear that day. While her father attends to the turbulent affairs of a vast and complex country, Anastasia's major concerns are how to get out of her detested schoolwork to play in the snow, go ice skating, or have picnics. Anastasia is a carefree young duchess, daughter of Nicholas Alexandrovitch Romanov, tsar of all the Russias in 1914.
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