The Romanov empress
Subtitle: a novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
By: C.W. Gortner
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780425286166
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Empresses; Fiction; Kings and rulers; History
Description: Marrying the Romanov heir, nineteen-year-old Danish princess Minnie becomes empress of Russia and treads a perilous path of compromise in a beloved but resistance-torn country where her son becomes the last tsar.

Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage. She is brought to Russia, and marries the Romanov heir, Alexander. Once he ascends the throne, she becomes empress Maria. When their son, Nicholas, inherits the throne he is the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. Determined to guide him to reforms that will bring Russia into the modern age, Maria faces implacable opposition from Nicholas's wife, Alexandra, whose fervor has led her into a disturbing relationship with a mystic named Rasputin. -- adapted from jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-424).