Behind the scenes of history, there is something about Maria.
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia - Wikipedia I don't know why, maybe it's just my imagination running wild with nothing else to do - but, there's something about Maria. Her eyes are like beacons telling you to pay attention, there's more to. her than that photo - her story and one yet to be written. There's twists, there are turns, and there she was a young woman still wondered about over a hundred years later. Her message was lasting, it still speaks. Maybe it is the cry of an innocent heart wanting to live forever but knowing the end is sooner than we think. I don't know. There's something about Maria and the way I landed here on her story in my own path that wants to believe she wasn't assassinated along with members of her royal Russian family, the Romanovs. This is what history tells us: When the revolution broke out the Bolsheviks ordered the family to be moved from their initial exile in Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg. That was in April 19...
