St Petersburg

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ST PETERSBURG</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thalia Marguerite Titania Bobrov travels with her mother from their quiet home in Smolensk to the Capital of Russia St Petersburg to stay with her maternal grandmother who is the youngest sister of the Dowager Empress of Russia and mother to the Tsar. Thalia is to be presented at court and launched into the glittering society of Russian Aristocracy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>During her new life Thalia meets and falls in love with Prince Nicholas Ivanov cousin to the Tsar and her mother's cousin. Set between the glittering society of the aristocracy and the harsh realities and cruelty leading to war and the Russian Revolution.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thalia learns new strengths as she passes between the rich and the poor. She trains with the Tsarina and two oldest daughters to become a nurse at Tsarskoye Selo which has partly been converted to a hospital for the injured Russian victims of war.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In her new life Thalia meets all the Royal family which she is related to the famed Peter Karl Faberge known for the famous Faberge Eggs known worldwide and the lecherous Father Gregory Rasputin whose unwanted attentions Thalia has caught.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the Tsar is forced to abdicate and the royal family are kept under house arrest Thalia and her family are forced to flee for their lives and make a home thousands of miles from their beloved homeland of Russia.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>