Title : Sashenka - Simon Montefiore - book

Summary :

From the last hours of the Romanov Empire to post-perestroika Russia in the 1990s, via Stalinist terror, the moving destiny of an unforgettable heroine. In the tradition of Doctor Zhivago, a dazzling fresco by one of Russia's greatest historians.

Saint Petersburg, winter 1916. In front of the Smolny Institute for Girls, Sashenka Zeitlin, a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl, is arrested. In a Tsarist Russia on the brink of collapse, while her mother continues to get drunk at parties with Rasputin and his clique, Sashenka has chosen her side. That of the revolution...

Some twenty years later, Sashenka embodies the model Soviet woman. The wife of a high-ranking party official and the happy mother of two children, she nevertheless gives in to a torrid passion for a seductive writer whose ideas prove dangerously compromising. He endangers the lives of those she loves... and her own.

For more than fifty years, her story remained hidden. Until a young historian delved into the KGB archives and revealed the fate of a woman faced with an impossible choice...

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