Fictional Books on Rescue and Survival from Ekaterinburg

[Ian (UK)]

   Could you be referring to NO RESTING PLACE FOR A ROMANOV  by Sue Edwards ? (caution, it only has 76 pages). Search for Larissa Tudor with our search function, there you will find the relevant information for the book and a claimant thread. Her grave is at the All Saints Cemetery Lydd.

[Alixz]

This doesn't sound like the right book.  feodorovna says that the woman was called Anna not Larissa and that she was buried with a gravestone that simply reads "Anna".

I have been researching but with so few clues to the title of the book, the keywords don't help much in the search.

[Ian (UK)]

   I feel the book whichever it turns out to be must be based on Larissa Tudor. If it isn't then Romney Marsh is the new Area 51 hotspot for Romanov claimants, as Lydd & Hythe are not much more than 10 miles apart. 

[feodorovna]

Carisbrooke, thankyou SO much. "NO RESTING PLACE.........." certainly rings bells and I would certainly have been attracted by the "Romanov" in the title. Alixz, I may well have remembered her name incorrectly, it was such a long time ago that I read the book and certainly have no memory of it being 76 pages short!! Lydd and Hythe are indeed very close, so perhaps it's as well that I didn't search Hythe churchyard during a thunderstorm!!!

A postscript to this is that whilst on a cruise to Russia, two authors, a husband and wife, gave a talk about a book they were writing on one of the Grand Dukes-Michael who married Natasha? I spoke with them afterwards about the book I had read, which not unreasonably, given what has transpired, they dismissed as total rubbish. Might it be possible that those authors were the Crawfords? They were hugely knowledgeable about all things Romanov and thankfully,since then, my own has grown.

[Ian (UK)]

  This will be on the forum somewhere, but here we go again.
OWEN TUDOR'S MYSTERIOUS WIFE http://www3.telus.net/mtnclimb/pers/family/owenTudor.html

   @Feodorovna        Also you may want to try The Romanov Conspiracies by Occleshaw, it is mentioned in the link.

[feodorovna]

Thankyou Carisbrooke. Even though the sad truth has been revealed beyond a shadow of doubt(?) the story is deliciously tantalizing.

You may find this story of interest. Several years ago I became acquainted with a person of no little eccentricity. He had thrown in a safe position at a bank to write plays and had some  success at this, earning enough to support his other love-Russia and the Romanovs, his last work being a musical called "Anastasia." He visited Russia many times, travelling on any merchant vessel that would take him and his charm endearing him to the Russians who opened their homes to him when he was .
He never subscribed to the survivor theory and always maintained that he knew where the IF were buried. However, the local authorities were impervious to his charm-I think he made a bit of a nuisance of himself-and he was told that he had outstayed his welcome and could face inprisonment if he returned. The reason for their decision appears to have been that he had started to dig!! He longed to return because "I made a promise to the people that I would give the IF back to them" but it wasn't to be. As we now know, the remains were found and according to him, only yards from where he and his friends had started their dig. Improbable as his story sounds,it was verified by his son who, on one occasion was with him, and he had taken numerous pictures.
He never returned to the country he was so passionate about. He developed an inoperable brain tumour and died. The world is now short of a very colourful character who lived life to the full, who was frequently unwise but never boring.

[Ian (UK)]

   One more to add to our fiction list. A weepy romance with religious overtones featuring Olga.

THE SOVEREIGN'S DAUGHTER  ........2005 (formerly OKSANA 1973) by Susan May Warren & Susan K Downs
http://www.susanmaywarren.com/B_Oksana.html

Fiction /General /Romance
Barbour Publishing
286 pages