"Christ is Risen!" Marie wrote. It would be the only Easter celebrated in separation. Marie, Nicolas and Alexandra survived the hazardous journey across Siberia and crossed the frozen Tobol River. They made most of the journey in the rough tarantass carts- "I feel my soul shaken out of me," Alexandra said. Marie tried to cushion her mother with her own body...With only months to live, Marie Romanov observed Eastern Orthodox Easter with her parents in the Ipatiev Mansion. .In the novel, The Passion of Marie Romanov, their final
journey begins on page 108 . This photo shows Olga, Alexei, Anastasia and Tatiana- the children left behind in Tobolsk after Marie left with their parents for Yekaterinburg
