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Petersburg
was originally published by G.P Putnams and Fawcett in the U.S.
It was translated into several languages and became a best seller
in England.
The
most glittering city. The greatest love story. The passion and
paradox of a time when lives were turned upside down by the
powerful events surrounding them. Petersburg is a brilliantly
crafted historical novel of imperial Russia swept up in the
first great wave of revolution, telling the odyssey of four
people.
Alexei Kalinin,
the peasant who becomes one of Russia's richest men, finds that his
wealth, power, and obsessive love for Anna Orlov nearly allow him to
bury his murky past. Anna, a magically gifted pianist and sheltered
daughter of old Russia, is ill-prepared for the passionate world
into which her love for the mysterious Kalinin takes her. Defiant and
sensuous, Irina Rantzau is at home among the most hedonistic
pleasures of the court, but chooses instead to embrace the growing
rebellion. Misha Kalinin, Alexei's nephew and heir, transforms his raw
energy and fear of violence into the spirit and determination that make
him a true fighter for the people, and a tortured soul.
Particular and powerful passions catapult these four into a strange and
different world of blood, betrayal, and rebellion, that forces each to
face the most bittersweet choice of all.
Petersburg is set
against a tapestry woven from some of the most fascinating events and
figures of turn-of-the-century Russia. The crumbling court of Czar
Nicholas II; the avant-garde music of Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov;
the romantic, revolutionary writings of Gorky; the splendor of
Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre; the defiant call to arms of the
exiled Trotsky and Lenin; the peaceful pageantry of the workers'
procession to the Winter Palace; the czar's sudden attack, which
transforms the march into the slaughterhouse of Bloody Sunday all
become part of an authentic historical struggle with the irresistible
impact of a moving love story. Like all great historical novels, Petersburg
transports its readers completely into its world-setting a drama of
epic proportions against a magnificently accurate background, and using
the immediacy of its richly textured detail to create a novel of
universal appeal.
From a Reader
I loved it, loved it, loved it...were there ever a sequel to this phenomenal book? I've been looking for other fictional/historical novels that deals with Russian Revolution but what I find are mostly History, non-fictional accounts. My preference would be you, but...Any suggestions?
Thanks so much for your time,
Again I loved every word of your book, and fully intend to re-read :)
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