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My problems writing about Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas

21 September 2020 By Gill Paul

Writing historical fiction about famous 20th-century people may mean that there are more records to draw on than are available for previous centuries. But it brings its own set of problems, as author Gill Paul found while working on her latest novel, The Second Marriage. Biographical novels have long been a popular form of historical […]

Review: The Last Czars

15 July 2019 By Gill Paul

Gill Paul, author of two novels about the Romanovs, reviews the Netflix series The Last Czars for Historia

Stockholm Syndrome in Ekaterinburg?

18 October 2018 By Gill Paul

Romanov sisters

In April 1918, the former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children were moved by their Bolshevik captors to a house in Ekaterinburg, owned by a merchant called Ipatiev. Three weeks later, the rest of the family followed. They would never again set foot outside its confines. The building was surrounded by a […]

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