Sashenka
by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling and Russia is on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. In the evenings when her banker father is doing deals and her mother is partying with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka becomes Comrade Snowfox and slips into the frozen night to play her part in a game of conspiracy and seduction that will usher in a brave new Communist world. Twenty years on, and Sashenka is married to a high-up apparatchik in Stalin's government. She seems to have everything - yet all around her, her friends are being arrested and people are disappearing. Then Stalin himself comes for dinner, and Sashenka falls passionately in love, thereby setting in train a terrifying sequence of events that will result in her having to make the most agonising choice of all: whether to sacrifice her own life or that of those she loves most dearly.
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Family secrets, Fiction, History, Women historians, Fiction, family life, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Russia (federation), fiction, New York Times reviewedPlaces
England, Georgia, London, Moscow, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union, TbilisiTimes
1916, 1939, 1994, Nicholas II, 1894-1917Showing 6 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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Sashenka: Part Two : Moscow 1939
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Sashenka: The Caucasus, London, Moscow, 1994
2009, Clipper Audio
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"It is over twenty years since beautiful, headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin slipped away from her family home to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and intrigue. Now she is married to a rich and powerful man and has two children. All around her people are disappearing, although she and her family seem safe. But she is about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences."--Publisher description.
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