An Imperial Affair
  • Published:
    Mar-1980 (Hardcover)
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    312
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The vividly authentic, richly detailed novel of roman, intrigue, and revolution recreates the last days of the Russian aristocracy and give startling answers to questions that have haunted the West since the summer of 1918, when the world was told that Czar Nicholas and his family had been executed in the Siberian town of Ekaterinburg. Prince George Sergius Romanovsky, cousin to Nicholas and head of the czarist Russian consulate in San Francisco, was an expatriate who had several all ties with his homeland - except for the substantial checks sent regularly by his banker in Petersburg, the crystallized roses ordered occasionally from a caterer in Moscow, and a lingering passion for the red-haired, extravagant Princess Loubova-Tcherkassky, the wife of his best friend, Jerome Whitfield. The suddenly the checks from Russia stopped, and so did the shipments of crystallized roses; the attention of the civilized world turned to Ekaterinburg; and a generous offer laced with blackmail reached Romanovsky via Whitfield. Would the prince travel through Siberia to rescue Nicholas and his family before they fell into the hands of the Red Executioners or the agents of another royal cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany? Accepting the offer, Romanovsky enters a land of shifting identities and desperate exigencies as this tale of adventure becomes the story of a fugitive from history who was, finally, utterly transformed by it.
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    • First Edition
    • Mar-1980
    • Delacorte
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0385270674
    • ISBN13: 9780385270670
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    • Jan-1980
    • Dial Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0803734271
    • ISBN13: 9780803734272
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    • Jan-1980
    • Dial Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0803719531
    • ISBN13: 9780803719538



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