2 Maria Romanov

My name is Maria, Grandducchess of the House of Romanov, 3rd daughter of Nicholas lll and Alexandra Feodorovna the Emperor and Empress of the Russian Empire.

I was shot and was supposed to die with my family on that fateful night, but weeks before, Mama told us that our long awaited rescue will be happening and we must be ready at all time.

We never took off our inner garments where we sewn and the treasures of the Imperial family that we must take with us wherever we go.

As the guards fired shots on me, none of those bullets penetrated my flesh because those jewels hidden inside me became unexpected armours and breastplates forming a protective barrier between me and death.

I passed out because of fear. Some of my sisters were still alive and screaming, Ivan told me that they were repeatedly stabbed and shot one of them was shot in the head because the knife got stuck on one of her jewels. I don't know which sister it was and I don't want to know.

Yakov, the head of the secret guards had other plans. He knew the value of my brother Alexei as the only son and heir to the throne of all Russia. He put an impostor at the basement with us while the other guards were not looking and he hid Alexei.

He warned my parents that the other guards were planning to abduct my little brother to use as a ransom so my parents agreed not to say a word and pretended that the child, a peasant from the village was indeed Alexei.

My brother is with Sergev now, a fellow soldier and comrade of Ivan and also the right hand of Yakov. He made a promise to reunite me with my brother because he knew that Russia has fallen into the hands of the devil and Alexei is our last hope to prevent Lenin and his Bolshevik party on spreading terror, malice, lies, more death and destruction by the horrors of socialism and communism.