Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia before World War I broke out, Grand Duchess Anastasia visited her brother, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, and his family in England. When many eagerly greeted the outbreak of war, after the Austrian ultimatum, she wrote to Tsar Nicholas II: ""I hope that the war will not happen and that we even can say ‘perhaps in a few days, we’ll all be together again'"". The conflict split her family. Her son was a reigning prince in Germany and her younger daughter was the Kaiser's daughter in law. On the opposite side, her brothers in Russia were fighting to defeat
The Steel Tsar feature of this installment of the series is the lack of conflict or tension between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America, both of whom have since settled their differences and become active trading partners and political/military allies. The Steel Tsar The Steel Tsar is a sci-fi/alternate history novel by Michael Moorcock, first published in 1981 by Granada. Being a sequel to "Warlord of the Air" (1971) and "The Land Leviathan" (1974), it is the final part of Moorcock's "A Nomad of the Time Streams" trilogy regarding the adventures of Captain Oswald Bastable and which has