She didn't have a boyfriend because she was sealed off from Society as a child and as a teenager and she was imprisoned in 1917 and died 1 year later at the age of 17
Anastasia was killed in 1917 by the rebels who won the February revolution. The royal family was brought into a room and was given two chairs, being told that they were getting their picture taken....
Born in 1899 Grand Duchess Marie Nicholaevna was the third of Nicholas II's four daughters. She perished in the massacre at Ekaterinburg along with the rest of her family in 1918.
The conflict was basically the war and how she (and her family) are trying to support themselves and all of Russia. It is a really great book and i suggest it to anyone. ( its not one of those really...