The Jewel of St. Petersburg

Author: Kate Furnivall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847443328
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
Russia, 1910. Young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersburg's aristocracy with her classic Russian beauty and her talent as a pianist. But she scandalises society when she begins a romance with Jens Friis, a Danish engineer. He brings to her life a passion and an intimacy she has never known. Unbending in their opposition, her parents push her into a loveless engagement with a Russian count. Valentina struggles for independence and to protect her young sister from the tumult sweeping the city, as Russia is bound for rebellion. The Tsar, the Duma and the Bolsheviks are at each other's throats and Valentina is forced to make a choice that changes her life for ever . . .

The Russian Concubine

Author: Kate Furnivall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425215586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532

Book Description
A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land. Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. But they face danger: Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed toward Junchow to kill Reds like Chang, who has in his possession the jewels of a tsarina, meant as a gift for the despot's wife. The young pair's all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. Those in power will do anything to quell it. But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.

The Renaissance Vinoy

Author: Prudy Taylor Board
Publisher: Walsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781578640874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description

The Dragon and the Jewel

Author: Virginia Henley
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307567419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
With her sapphire eyes and silken dark hair, Princess Eleanor was a bewitching beauty made for a man's pleasure. Once a child bride, but widowed at a tender age, she swore never to marry again and took a vow of eternal chastity...until Simon de Montfort marched into England and set his smoldering dark gaze upon her, King Henry's youngest sister, the royal family's most precious jewel. Bold, arrogant, and invincible, the towering Norman knight inspired awe in the bravest of men...and a reckless desire in Eleanor's untried heart.

Jewels from Imperial St. Petersburg

Author: Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785874174576
Category : Jewelry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book not only offers a fascinating range of jewels and objects d'art crafted in St. Petersburg, beginning with the reigns of the empresses Elizabeth and Catherine the Great and ending in 1917 with that of Nicholas II, it is also intertwined with captivating personal history. It describes the development of style and design within the art of the St. Petersburg goldsmith, putting it into historical context. Many of the pieces discussed come from private collections in Finland and Sweden, each with a unique provenance happily preserved in anecdotes, letters, diaries, historical documents, and photographs.

Shadows on the Nile

Author: Kate Furnivall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101609877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
1912 London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents’ home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out on a quest to find Timothy. She plunges into a mysterious world of séances and mystics, nebulous clues and Egyptian artifacts. With the help of a dashing and impoverished aristocrat, Sir Montague Chamford, Jessie follows the trail into the alien, swirling sands of the Egyptian desert. Amid the ancient intrigue and blistering heat, a powerful romance sparks between Jessie and Monty. But they must first confront the demons of Jessie’s past—and reveal the dark secrets that threaten not only Timothy’s life but theirs as well.

The Jewels of the Romanovs

Author: Stefano Papi
Publisher: Skira
ISBN: 9780500517062
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An amazing collection of images of the Romanovs, their world, and their fabulous jewels brings the last years of the dynasty to life

For Whom the Stars Shine

Author: L. L. Chaikin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556616471
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Having just completed her nurse's training, orphaned Eden Derrington is determined to follow in her father's footsteps and care for the lepers isolated at Molokai. Her grandfather, however, has different plans for this headstrong young woman.

St. Petersburg

Author: Bradley Woodworth
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115598
Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Often called the Venice of the north, St. Petersburg has remained the crown jewel of the Russian artistic scent. Writers covered include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, and Aleksandr Pushkin.

The Man from St. Petersburg

Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451208705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
"Ken Follett has done it once more . . . goes down with the ease and impact of a well-prepared martini." —New York Times Book Review His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world—except the man from St. Petersburg.