Sashenka

Description:

"It is over twenty years since beautiful, headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin slipped away from her family home to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and intrigue. Now she is married to a rich and powerful man and has two children. All around her people are disappearing, although she and her family seem safe. But she is about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences."--Publisher description.

subjects: Family secrets,  Fiction,  History,  Women historians,  Fiction, family life,  Soviet union, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Russia (federation), fiction,  New York Times reviewed

People: Grigori Rasputin,  Joseph Stalin (1879-1953),  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1870-1924)

Places: England,  Georgia,  London,  Moscow,  Russia,  Saint Petersburg,  Soviet Union,  Tbilisi

Times: 1916,  1939,  1994,  Nicholas II, 1894-1917