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I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

~ Sarah Miller

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My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

~ Sarah Miller

Sarah Miller Anastasia Exile Otma Romanovs Russia Russian Revolution Traveling Tsar Nicholas Ii War

Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.

~ Sarah Miller

Sarah Miller Anastasia Home Otma Russia Russian Revolution Sadness The Romanovs Tsar Nicholas Ii

Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is Peter the Great. But Nicholas, whose hand was lighter than that of any tsar before him, is Bloody Nicholas. In human terms, this is irony rich and dramatic, the more so because Nicholas knew what he was called.

~ Robert K. Massie

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