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Matushka

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Time 1h 17m

19thcentury comingofage death emperor forbiddenlove german historical mystic princess queen romanov royalty russian sisterhood slavic slowburn tsar victorian

❛ matushka  |  𝜗ৎ 
                       ❪  𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈  ❫ 



       in which a princess from a small
       duchy is taken under the wing of the
       most powerful queen and falls for
       the heir of a rich and bloody empire.

❪  based on the life of princess alix of hesse  ❫





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❪   2024  ©  careycore  ❫All Rights Reserved

19thcentury comingofage death emperor forbiddenlove german historical mystic princess queen romanov royalty russian sisterhood slavic slowburn tsar victorian

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The Day Sunshine Fell

A fictional story of the Romanovs in a world where the Russian Revolution never took place. This is a short novel of the death of the beloved Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, a hemophiliac, as told from the perspective of his elder sister, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, including insight on the marriages of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana and Maria, and the trials of the unmarried Anastasia. TW: Death, suicide themes