Romanovs Part 1

It's occurred to me that there are probably people who aren't familiar with the Romanovs and since I recently saw Anastasia on Broadway, read a novel a few months ago which was an alternate history of the Romanovs, and yes, the FrankenIdea has a Romanov-related strand in it, I may as well blog about 'em. The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg. By Alex Florstein via Wikimedia Commons What follows