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When her mother becomes a lady-in-waiting to Empress Alexandra, Katya becomes the playmate of Grand Duchess Anastasia. Katya and her mother stay with the Romanovs, even following them to Siberia. Whelan provides an absorbing fictional perspective on a volatile period in Russian history.