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An essential read for all Romanov fans - Rated
"The Romanov Bride" is the story of Ella or more formerly Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna of Russia. She was a grand daughter of Queen Victoria and a sister of the last Empress of Russia. The book starts with her childhood in Darmstadt in Germany and follows her to Russia where she marries Grand Duke Serge, a brother of Tsar Alexander III. After her husband is assassinated Ella becomes a nun. Running parallel to her story is the story of Pavel a Russian peasant and throughout the book the chapters move between these two characters as narrators as their lives become intertwined.
Although I enjoyed both of Robert Alexander's first two books immensely ("The Kitchen Boy" and "Rasputin's Daughter"), I think that he has excelled himself with this book. Robert Alexander has captured the spirit of Ella very successfully. Although the book is fiction the author has stuck to all the known facts about her life and indeed has included many small details about Ella's life to make her truly come alive again. I think that this book is must read for any Romanov fan and even for anyone not interested in them it is still a very interesting story told in an exceptional way.
A saintly Grand Duchess and a revolutionary peasant: two lifes of contrast - fascinanting historcial fiction - Rated
After the Kitchen Boy and Rasputin's daugther this is the third novel by Robert Alexander about Imperial Russia before and during the Revolution. And he has chosen properly one of the most fascianting creatures: the Grand Duchess Elisabeth, the sister of the last Empress, wife of the Grand Duke Serge, Governor of Moscow. A woman of extreme beauty and elegance, but pretty oppressed in her mariage, whose husband was killed by the revolutionaries and she turned into a orthodox abbess, founding her own convent and in the end was killed by the revolutionaries too.
Robert Alexander made a brillaint choice by bringing two lifes togteher which only a revoltion can merge: on one hand it is the life of an Imeprial Grand Duchess and the glittering world of the Romanov court and on the other is the life of Pavel, a simple village man in search of a better life. When his young wife, Shura, is shot and killed by tsarist soldiers during a political demonstration, Pavel dedicates his life to overthrowing the Romanovs. Pavel's underground group assassinates Elisavyeta's husband, the Grand Duke. The Grand Duchess turns to religion, becomes an abbess, caring for the poor, but the revoltion does not stop at convent doors and the Grand Duchess-Abbess is sent to exile in Siberia where Pavel will have to decide her fate.
In his THE ROMANOV BRIDE again proves himself an most engaging story teller with a deep understanding of Imperial Russia. It is fiction, but great fiction which hooks the reader with page one. This book is utterly fascianting. Those who love historical fiction and Imperial Russia want to read this book. Just perfect!!
