Some are sympathetic to her cause and believe she truly is Anastasia and want to help her prove her case in a court of law, while others don’t care who she is but just want a piece of the spotlight that is bound to come from being associated with possible royalty. Lawhon chronicles these painful events in great detail, making the reader want, all the more, for someone from the Romanov family to have survived the brutal massacre.Īnna’s story, however, was equally compelling as Lawhon shows how she spent much of those 50 years trying to prove her identity - being shuffled from place to place, having no real home or financial security of her own. Anastasia’s story of course immediately had me sympathetic, just knowing the history of how her family suffered at the hands of first, Alexander Kerensky after he forced her father to abdicate, then later the Bolsheviks after they overthrew Kerenksy’s provisional government. Whether they are one in the same or two different people, I was completely invested in both journeys I was reading about. What fascinated me most about this novel is the way Lawhon captured both Anna and Anastasia.
Is it possible that Anastasia survived? If Anna isn’t really Anastasia, what would lead her to so desperately claim that she is for so many years?Įven though those of us who are familiar with the Anna/Anastasia story know how it ends, it’s still quite compelling to see how it all unfolds in this incredibly well researched retelling. Whether or not Anastasia survived is the focus of the other half of I Was Anastasia, as we follow a woman named Anna Anderson who claimed to be Anastasia for 50 years until her death in 1970. Even if you don’t know all of the details, you’ve probably at least heard the name Anastasia Romanov, who was one of Tsar Nicholas’s daughters and who was rumored to have survived the assassination attempt.
One half of the novel chronicles the imprisonment and subsequent assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his entire royal family following the Bolshevik Revolution.
Most of us are at least somewhat familiar with the subject matter of Ariel Lawhon’s I Was Anastasia. Published by Doubleday Books on March 27th 2018įTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley.
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