How Did You Get Interested In The Romanovs? . . . Part 2

Hi all! As some of you might know, there's already been another thread on this, but it hasn't been replied to since, like, 2005, so I figured: Why not just make a new one? So here goes: =D

I was interested in the French Revolution as a kid, and finally I was told (meaning, like, I was actually talked to) a story about a princess named Anastasia who was murdered but who's body had never been found. Can you believe I actually had a dream about her that night? Well, the next day I went to school and checked out the "N" encyclopedia from the library, just so I could see their picture. No lie. Then I read the Royal Diaries, and the Lost Crown, and Nicholas and Alexandra and all the other resourceful books of mine.

I just watched Anastasia the cartoon movie when I was a little kid and asked my mother if it was based on a true story, and she said yes, and alas, my romanov passion was born! Went from Wikipedia to encyclopedias to forums to Romanovy VS to other books

Well I wached mystory trackers (or something like that) and they were doing a little segment of ann anderson being anastasia (and thats why I never thought that ann was anastasia) then I read royal diarys and so on.

For me it was reading the Massie book as a teenager in the late 60's... and the photo section of the book got me right off. But there are great engines of Romanov interest that bring people of certain ages to the family . Massie's  book was a huge one....Anastasia the cartoon  was  another important one  for a later  generation...and you tube is an amazing one  still others!

Been interested since the 1970's.  I love this board, anywhere else, you mention Romanov's and you would most likely get "Huh? What!?"