![]() ![]() The question of who this woman is and what actually happened to Anastasia creates a saga that spans fifty years and three continents. As rumors begin to circulate through European society that the youngest Romanov daughter has survived the massacre at Ekaterinburg, old enemies and new threats are awakened. When she finally does speak, this frightened, mysterious young woman claims to be the Russian Grand Duchess. Literature, she says, is a way that we rehearse life. ![]() Refusing to explain her presence in the freezing water or even acknowledge her rescuers, she is taken to the hospital where an examination reveals that her body is riddled with countless, horrific scars. Lowry, who has lost a sister and a son, has spent decades writing about the pains of memory. Germany, February 17, 1920: A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is pulled shivering and senseless from a canal. ![]() In her third novel, Lawhon ( Flight of Dreams, 2016, etc.) fictionalizes the story of a woman named Anna Anderson, who was pulled out of a canal in Germany after. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. Anna Anderson’s claim to be Anastasia Romanovsole survivor of the murder of the czar’s family during the Bolshevik Revolutionis explored in this drama of historical suspense. ![]() "Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, has set her sights on one of history's most beguiling mysteries: Did Anastasia Romanov survive the Russian Revolution, or was Anna Anderson, the woman who notoriously claimed her identity, an impostor? Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. ![]()
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