A Royal Gift

12 hrs. 18 min.

Language Russian

Author Lyudmila Tretyakova

Narrator Irina Yerisanova

Description

“The Tsar’s Gift” is made up of six novellas dedicated to both noble ladies and romantic figures of not-so-illustrious origins. Above all, Tretіakovа is interested in the “rich and famous,” and, of course, in their unhappy marriages of convenience and in unrequited (because of well-known class and other mismatches) love. “The Silver Carriage” is about the notoriously infamous Marina Mнишек, the Polish adventuress who managed to become the wife of both False Dmitrys—self-proclaimed tsars of the era of the Great Troubles in Russia. “Mary, the Emperor’s Daughter” tells of the mysterious love of the daughter of Emperor Nicholas I. “The Shadow of Louise” is devoted to the tragic fate of a charming French modiste in the nasty city of St. Petersburg…