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Tsarina

Tsarina, Book 1

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Tsarina

By: Ellen Alpsten
Narrated by: Anna Krippa
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Lover, murderer, mother, Tsarina. Memoirs of a Geisha meets Game of Thrones in this captivating epic charting the extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of the most powerful woman history ever forgot.

Spring 1699: illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at the age of 15, Marta survives by committing a crime that will force her to go on the run.

A world away, Russia's young ruler, Tsar Peter I, passionate and iron-willed, has a vision for transforming the traditionalist Tsardom of Russia into a modern, Western empire. Countless lives will be lost in the process.

Falling prey to the Great Northern War, Marta cheats death at every turn, finding work as a washerwoman at a battle camp. One night at a celebration, she encounters Peter the Great. Relying on her wits and her formidable courage, and fuelled by ambition, desire and the sheer will to live, Marta will become Catherine I of Russia. But her rise to the top is ridden with peril. How long will she survive the machinations of Peter's court, and more importantly, Peter himself?

©2020 Sunbird Stories Limited (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Russia Crime War

Critic Reviews

"This is the ultimate Cinderella story of an illiterate peasant girl who becomes the empress of Russia. It makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme." (Daisy Goodwin)
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I read about a book a week and this book is my number one book for the past three years. The elegant descriptive writing which weaves in the action and emotion makes it easy and compelling to read. The author keeps very close to the historically known facts of the time. Do yourself a favour and read it.

Marvellous, compelling, unsettling.

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full of cleshays, not very interesting, and disapointing this is all you can find on such an interesting real life figure.

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