num_pages: 400
description: Shortlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills Award 2018 Russia 1916. Nina Ivanovnas world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg to escape the past and find a future. Stefan Kolodin is a medical student  young and idealistic he wants change for Russia and its people. Amidst the chaos of a city in revolt their lives collide. And a stormy relationship develops . . . full of passion and politics. But soon Nina is drawn in to the glamorous lavish lives of the Russian royal family  where she begins to fall under the spell of their mysterious monk Grigory Rasputin. The ruby-studded dagger he carries  beautiful and deadly  could save her and Stefan from a cursed life . . . or condemn them to it. An outstanding writer  simply superb Independent
language: English
title: The Rasputin Dagger
publisher: Childrens