Anastasia's Album
Publication Information
Author:  Brewster, Hugh	Illustrator:
Title:  Anastasia's Album	Date:  1996
Publisher:  Hyperion	City:  Toronto
ISBN, paperback:  0-7868-0292-8	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography, nonfiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
This biography of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, is told through photos and memorabilia and reveals the mystery behind her death.
Teaching Ideas:
This fascinating story of a real life mystery will be well loved by teachers and students both. The book is current (and includes DNA results disproving Anna Anderson's claims) and features a glossary, illustrations, and archival and contemporary photos. The assassination of the family is handled discreetly. Students may prefer to poke through it slowly. The book would make a good introduction to keeping journals for family history. The story of the Romanoffs could be expanded by class research on the lives of the peasants and intellectuals that caused the revolution, about the history of communism that grew out of it and has very recently suffered its own overthrow. Teachers may want to raise discussion on royalty versus other systems of rule, revolutions versus democratic change, this event in history versus other incidents of bloodshed against privileged families or rulers.
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Family > family history Family > parent > daughters History > time period > 20th Century History > region > Europe Geography > locations > countries > Russia History > region > Russia > well-known people > Romanof, Anastasia History > region > Russia > well-known people > Tzar Nicholas History > topic > war > Russian Revolution

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