Azar, Helen

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia was the second of four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II. Tatiana was acknowledged for her beauty, poise, elegance, and dignity. Her diaries show a remarkably down-to-earth and humorous young woman, full of life and compassion. She was a detail-oriented and observant participant in some of the most historical events of the twentieth century.

Olga, the oldest daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicolas II, kept a diary from the time she was ten, in 1905, until March 1917, when her father abdicated from the Russian throne. Olga's diaries are held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Her diaries from the World War I era have never been translated until this volume.