I remember reading Robert Massie’s The Romanovs: The Final Chapter in high school, being obsessed with the idea that Anastasia could have survived. I was thinking of that when I fell down an internet rabbit hole this past weekend, reading about the last days of the Grand Duchesses. As my music professor used to say, Plus ça change, etc., etc., etc.

And because I can’t get those young women out of my head, I drew this. Given the time, I’d love to develop this one further, their whole maddening, heart-breaking, fascinating story.