I've also been searching for some great Russian Revolution era/Romanov historical fiction due to the surprising lack of it on the market. I really respect her as a top-notched historian and wonderful storyteller who can bring history to life in a way that's realistic and fairly close to accurate. I recently have become a fan of Carolly Erickson's historical fiction novels. Into Tania's world comes a young soldier whose life she helps to save and who becomes her partner in daring plans to rescue the imperial family from certain death. Soon war breaks out and revolution sweeps the family from power and into claustrophobic imprisonment in Siberia. When he is diagnosed with hemophilia and the key to his survival lies in the mysterious power of the illiterate monk Rasputin, it is merely an omen of much worse things to come. Tania is one of four daughters, and the birth of her younger brother Alexei is both a blessing and a curse. Petersburg to the family's private enclave outside the capital. At its center is young Tania, who lives a life of incomparable luxury in pre-Revolutionary Russia, from the magnificence of the Winter Palace in St. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.Īnd so begins the latest entrancing historical entertainment by Carolly Erickson. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be-the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family.
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