SASHENKA By Simon Montefiore Simon & Schuster, $27, 517 pages REVIEWED BY JOSEPH C. GOULDEN Simon Montefiore writes of the perfidies of the Stalin era with a personal passion. As a child, he shuddered ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter One The shy northern sun had already set by teatime when three of the Tsar’s gendarmes took up positions at the gates of the Smolny Institute for ...

The story is set in St. Petersburg during winter 1916 when Russia is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young ...