ASIN: B00EP1N5R0
Publisher: Lamplight Press
Pages: 534
On the 16th of July 1918, near midnight, a squad of Bolsheviks secret police slaughtered the Royal Romanov family: the Czar, his wife, and their five children. S. Martin Shelton’s roman á clef “St. Catherine’s Crown” advances a dramatic narrative of the Romanov’s and the fiction that one Grand Duchess, though badly wounded, survived the massacre, was rescued by the Czech Legion, and evaded the dreaded Cheka who had vowed to capture and bring her to Soviet justice.1917- Empress Alexandria understands that the Bolsheviks will soon topple the Czar. She charges her godson, Kirik Pirogov, to carry the imperial crown of Catherine the Great and a cache of Romanov jewelry to a secret czarist refuge in western China. Alexandra informs her youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia, of the escape route necessary to carry on the Romanov Dynasty.Kirik and Anastasia make perilous journeys across ...
