padawanbrittany:“A rather bored Anastasia wrote to Nicholas. She could not understand why the Tsarin
padawanbrittany:“A rather bored Anastasia wrote to Nicholas. She could not understand why the Tsarina wanted the bedroom back to normal; she and Maria were happy with their beds in the middle of the room. She wrote whilst sitting on the toilet (water closet) listening to the gramophone in the distance.”ECS Banks, Road to Ekaterinburg: Nicholas and Alexandra’s Daughters 1913-1918 (Bristol: Silverwood Books, 2012), 175.This would have been in early November of 1915, not long after her sister Olga’s twentieth birthday, when she would have been fourteen years old. Another letter from November 1915, which is available to read in its entirety in Helen Azar’s Maria and Anastasia: The Youngest Romanov Grand Duchesses in Their Own Words (Letters, Diaries, Postcards), has Anastasia complaining to her father that she is, “hurrying because I have to do my boring homework.” Despite their status and the particular era in which they grew up, the Russian grand duchesses were not that much different than teenagers today: Anastasia wrote to her father from the bathroom while listening to music to complain about her mother making her rearrange her room, and on another occasion a few days later, complained to him of her ‘boring homework’. It doesn’t matter how rich you are or when you lived, when you’re fourteen, everything is pretty much the same. -- source link