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From one of Europe's best historical writers, an intricately woven tale of revenge, deception, love and redemption set contrary to the violent cultural upheavals of 1860s Russia. For Antonina, the wife of the rich Russian landowner, the planet comes apart one chilly spring morning when her husband takes her little child, Misha, out driving. Established upon by kidnappers on horseback, the child is the count injured and taken. Stunning, audio and protected, Antonina reaches first surprised and grief stricken, subsequently hopeless whilst the depend sickens and dies. Desperate, and encased by serfs and servants unsettled by the fall of the old-order, Antonina becomes to Grisha, the property steward, for assist in finding her child back. He's a guy of persistent goal and proficiency, and she's attracted to his power, ignorant that he's equally impaired and pushed by strategies he wished he'd left out him in the area of his birth, Siberia.