Enchantments
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Kathryn Harrison
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781400063475
Description: Rasputin's daughter, Masha, is sent to live with the royal family after her father's death. Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to Prince Aloysha, hoping that she has inherited Rasputin's healing powers. After Tsar Nikolay is forced to abdicate, Masha and Aloysha find solace in each other's company and tell stories as a way to escape their confinement by the Bolsheviks. In the worlds of their imagination the weak become strong, legend becomes fact, and a future that will never come to pass feels close.