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Simon & Schuster
November 2009
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Featuring: Sashenka Zeitlin
544 pages ISBN: 1416595554 EAN: 9781416595557 Paperback
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Historical
In the bestselling tradition of Doctor
Zhivago and Sophie's Choice, a sweeping epic of
Russia from the last days of the Tsars to today's age of
oligarchs -- by the prizewinning author of Young
Stalin.Winter 1916: St. Petersburg,
Russia, is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny
Institute for Noble Girls, an English governess is waiting
for her young charge to be released from school. But so are
the Tsar's secret police... Beautiful and headstrong,
Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with
Rasputin and their dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into
the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of
conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka is
married to a powerful, rising Red leader with whom she has
two children. Around her people are disappearing, while in
the secret world of the elite her own family is safe. But
she's about to embark on a forbidden love affair that will
have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies
hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep
into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heartbreaking
tale of betrayal and redemption, savage cruelty and
unexpected heroism -- and one woman forced to make an
unbearable choice.
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