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The national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine takes us back to Tsarist Russia for a sweeping novel of love and intrigue. Russia, 1910. Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg's elite aristocracy-until her romance with a Danish engineer creates a terrible scandal... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Valentina Ivanova: Main character in the novel. She's part of the Russian elite - daughter to a minister and falls in love with a Danish engineer, Jans Friis
- Jens Friis: Danish engineer who's working on building tunnels in St. Petersburg, lover of Valentina Ivanova
- General Nicholai Ivanov: Russian Minister
- Katya: Valentina's younger sister who's left crippled after an attack by the Bolsheviks at their summer residence
- Stepan Chernov: Commander in the Russian military. One of Valentina's suitors.
- Larisa Sergeyeva: Wife of a Bolshevik revolutionary
- Katya Ivanova: Valentina's younger sister
- Madam Davidova: Russian's Prime Minister's wife - she introduces Jans to Valentina
- Liev Popkov: The Cossack, works as a stable hand for the Ivanova family
- Lydia: Add a description of this character.
- Mama
- Alexei: Countess Serova's son
- Sonya
- Morozov
- Stolypin
- Doktor Fedorin: Doctor who Jans knows and works with
- Papa
- Karl: Bolshevik revolutionary that works with Viktor Arkin
- Natalia Serova
- Kerensky
- Mazhik: Bolshevik revolutionary that works with Viktor Arkin
- Dasha
- Maria
- Anna
- Grigori Rasputin
- Darya
- Madam Ivanova: Valentina's mother
- Sanitarka Ivanova: Sanitarka is russian for nurse - when Valentina is working in the hospital that is what she is called
- Tsar Nicholas: Tsar of Russia
- Mikhail
- Viktor Arkin: Bolshevik revolutionary, was working as the Ivanova's chauffer
- Elizaveta Ivanova: Valentina's mother
- Doktor Fedoris
- Rasputin
Setting & Locations edit
St Petersburg, Russia in the early 1900's
- Russia
- Varenka
- Petersburg
- Petrograd
- Cossack
- Tesovo
- Okhrana
- Turicum
- Duma
- Medsestra Gordanskaya
- Morskaya
- Hero
- Moscow
- St Isabella’s Hospital
- Tsarina
- Kroskin
- Chopin
- Paris
- Winter Palace
- Tesovo, Russia: The family's holiday home.
Organizations edit
First Sentence edit
Valentina Ivanova did not intend to die.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kate Furnivall (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Sphere
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4330-8
Page Count: 455
Publisher: Sphere
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4330-8
Page Count: 455
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.92
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