num_pages: 336
description: An alternate history set during the Russian Revolution.Russia 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil warthe poor are devouring the rich. Anna a bourgeois girl narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possiblenot realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks and nowregardless of her loyaltiesEvgenia is too.
language: English
title: Daughters of a Dead Empire
publisher: Roaring Brook Press