The Star of Kazan

Description:

After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

subjects: Jewelry,  Juvenile fiction,  Abandoned children,  Fiction,  Identity (Psychology),  Mothers and daughters,  History,  Identity,  Mystery and detective stories,  Indian art,  Kunst,  Indianen,  Indiens,  Art,  Expositions,  Children's fiction,  Austria, fiction,  Abandoned children, fiction,  Identity, fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Vienna (austria), fiction,  Germany, history, fiction,  Children's stories,  New York Times reviewed

Places: Austria,  Vienna (Austria),  Germany

Times: 1871-1918,  19th century,  1867-1918