![]() ![]() To their mother, Alexandra, they’re “the girlies.” Those girlies refer to themselves as OTMA (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia). The Romanovs themselves, however, undermine the effort. Rappaport’s main undertaking is to give the sisters back their individuality. The wizard prophesied “calamity, much grief, no ray of light, an incalculable ocean of tears.” He gave up being a wizard and started drinking. The World went to War, our kingdom being no exception. ![]() ![]() For a long time nothing happened (except, you know, some wars, pogroms, assassinations)-until a bullet flew into the archduke of Austria. As anybody could see, the family was in a bit of a bind. But the wizard had come to be reviled throughout the kingdom. An entourage of doctors was helpless-only the wizard could bring the boy back from the brink of death. But what nobody knew was that the little tsarevich was gravely ill with a royal disease of the blood: A bang on the knee could lead to death. ![]() Though he was “uncouth” and “sexually intimidating,” he granted their wish-at last there was a cause to launch 301 gun salutes (girls warranted only 101), and the kingdom rejoiced. At wit’s end, they sought the help of a wizard. They needed an heir, but instead kept popping out princesses. Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived an inept king and a scorned queen (versions vary in some she may be wicked, insane, abominable, all of the above). ![]()
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