Questions to Consider: The Kitchen Boy

1. Identify the following:

Nicholas II
Alexandra
Tatyana
Maria
Olga
Alexis
Yurovsky
Anastasiya
Rasputin
Leonka
Misha

2. Where is Yekaterinburg and why is the family imprisoned there?

3. Why is Nicholas II an anachronism in 1917?

4. What complex set of misrepresentations are there in this book?

5. How does the massacre in the story became fiction in reality?

6. Why would an author deliberately write a story that was not true?

7. How does the family cope with imprisonment?

8. What hope do they keep alive and through what means?

9. Do you think these events within the house are non-fiction or fiction?

10. Check out the Alexandra Palace Time Machine and see the real people.