Russian Saga (2-6) by Christopher Nicole
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Overview: Born in the West Indies, British author Christopher Nicole’s historical fiction has won international acclaim. Christopher Nicole lives with his wife, Diana, also a novelist, in the Channel Islands.
Genre: Fiction > Historical Fiction
The Masters: Russian Saga 2: Russia, 1894.
A nation on the brink of war and revolution…
When Anna Cromb sailed into Port Arthur with her son Duncan in the summer of 1894 she anticipated a joyous family reunion with Prince Colin and Princess Jennie.
But when Colin has died of illness before her arrival, there is no such reunion, meeting only Jennie and her many children, Peter, Georgei, Catherine, Sophie and young Patricia.
Instead, she seems to come across the beginning of a war as the Japanese fight their way into the city.
Meanwhile, the children are growing closer and Georgei takes Duncan into the city to lose his virginity. But the next day, Duncan and Patricia grow even closer…
When the families decide to leave for Bolugayen, they await the English ship they plan to travel on.
But when the Japanese warships take over Port Arthur, the ship never arrives and they are stuck.
Is Port Arthur really impregnable?
Jennie is killed by the Japanese as they race back to their home, Georgei dies in a battle at the brothel and Duncan is arrested when he shoots two men to save a prostitute.
To save Duncan’s life and free him, Anna agrees to consider the deaths an accident but Patricia cannot forgive him for her brother’s death.
They return to Russia, but Anna sends Duncan home to America to keep him from Patricia. She is outraged, and starts to hate Anna…
Patricia gets involved with a revolutionary group, and is arrested, beaten and raped before escaping with the terrorists, a broken woman.
When Duncan returns to Russia and learns of her disappearance, he is furious and sets out to find her and marry her.
Can he find her in the depths of Serbia?
And once he does, is he capable of keeping her safe and happy?
Meanwhile, Anna has many choices of her own to make, especially when it looks like she is headed back to Port Arthur…
The Red Tide: Russian Saga 3: Russia, 1911.
The country is still recovering from the disastrous effects of her defeat by Japan six years earlier when the assassination of Prime Minister Peter Stolypin plunges the country into chaos.
Colin’s son Alexei is married to Princess Sonia with two children: Colin, named after his grandfather and Anna, named after the formidable Countess Anna.
Meanwhile Duncan and Patricia are in England, far away from the troubles of Russia. But when they hear of the assassination, and Countess Anna is injured in the process, they hurry to her aid with their children Joseph and Jennie.
The men investigating the crime are Feodor Klinski and Michaelin and they can’t help but remember Sonia’s past associations with a terrorist group…
Sonia and Patricia set out with their children to St Petersburg and to the house of Nathalie and Dagmar, Colin’s original family where they meet Father Gregory Rasputin. When their husbands hear about this and knowing Rasputin’s notorious reputation, they follow them to the city.
When they learn of the women’s relations with Rasputin, Alexei refuses to with Sonia and she is banned from Bolugayen. He quickly finds a new wife in Duncan’s niece, Priscilla.
Meanwhile, Trotsky comes to see Sonia, saying he knows her from her days with Patricia in Siberia and Patricia is meeting with Lenin in London.
Are they behind the revolution?
Meanwhile, over the Bolugayevski family looms the sinister shadow of the Monk Rasputin.
When war breaks out between Russia and Germany in August 1914, the old order is torn apart and the Revolution explodes. Alexei goes to fight, leaving pregnant Priscilla at Bolugayen.
Then there are reports that Alexei is dead. Could they be true?
And who is now the rightful Prince? Colin or his new-born son from Priscilla?
Meanwhile the Tsar has abdicated and Sonia is arrested and raped by Klinski and Michaelin. Luckily she is saved…except it is by Rasputin…
Although the Bolugayevskis fight for their existence with all of their courage and tenacity, they know their lives can never be the same again, especially when Sonia, Nathalie, Patricia and Priscilla all come together at Bolugayen and the attacks begin…
‘The Red Tide’ is the third gripping instalment of Christopher Nicole’s The Russian Saga series, depicting the overturn of Russian Society during the hundred years between 1853 and 1953.
The Red Tide: Russian Saga 4: Russia, 1919.
The country is convulsed in a terrible civil war as the newly installed Communist government of Nikolai Lenin and his principal henchman, Leon Trotsky, confront the reactionary ‘White’ armies commanded by generals loyal to the now dead Tsar Nicholas II.
It is, like most civil wars, a brutal and savage conflict, with atrocities on both sides, with families split by their differing situations and ideals.
At least as eager to regain their ancestral lands as to restore the Tsar, Prince Alexei Bolugayevski of Bolugayen, and his son and heir Colin, are fighting for the Whites in the south.
While on the side of the Reds is Prince Alexei’s ex-wife Sonia — now mistress to Trotsky. Into this maelstrom comes another member of the family, Joseph Cromb, brought up in England, and now seeking some trace of his mother the Countess Patricia, supposedly murdered by the Reds in 1918.
But when he joins Alexei and Colin, he is captured and taken by the Reds and tortured until Sonia begs for his life. Inevitably, he beds the beautiful woman, before returning to the Whites with a promise to keep her son alive.
When he returns Alexei instead sends him to Priscilla, putting him in loco parentis of his wife and children and as the White Army are retreating, he is killed.
Meanwhile, Duncan Cromb has also died, leaving his daughter and Joseph’s sister, Jennie, alone. Joseph returns home, with Priscilla but it is not long before Russia catches up with them when they are visited by Gosykin. He invites them back to Russia, but in support of the Reds…
Jennie is tempted and before long, Gosykin has seduced her and convinced her to join him so he can use her a propaganda symbol.
Colin is now living in Paris, with his sister Anna who he is also in love with. He is the only thing in the way of the Red army, and Gosykin’s job is to eliminate him.
Joseph and Priscilla split: Joseph in search of his sister Jennie and Priscilla to Boston, to protect her son. Sonia and Trotsky are on the run and being hunted by the Reds.
What will happen to Anna, left weeping over Colin’s body?
And what will happen to young Alexei, now the Prince Bolugayevski?
Will Jennie ever be rescued, will Joseph find her before losing his own life?
The Scarlet Generation: Russia Saga 5: Russia, 1941.
Nazi Germany has invaded Communist Russia, sparking the most ferocious and destructive conflict in the history of the world.
Caught up in this cataclysmic struggle of hatred and heroism are the surviving members of the Bolugayevski family:
Alexei, an American doctor, volunteers for medical duty in Russian hospitals when the war begins taking his girlfriend Elaine with him, before meeting up with his long lost relative Tatiana.
Tatiana, Jennie’s daughter, last in the female line, and brought up to be a dedicated Communist, is caught behind the enemy lines, and becomes a wanted murderer, destined to become a famous partisan commander.
Joseph Cromb, who survived twelve years in the Gulag Archipelago, returns as a member of an American fact-finding mission, only to become more involved than he would have thought possible…
Priscilla Bolugayevska-Cromb, still calling herself Princess Dowager of Bolugayen, who plunges headlong into the corrupt and vicious society of the Kremlin.
And Sonia Bolugayevska, Trotsky’s mistress, who dreams only of revenge.
Meanwhile, amongst the Nazis is Anna, now married to Alexander Von Holzbach. She is desperate for revenge on any member of the Russian group behind her brother and lover’s death which includes Tatiana. But with a mother who is both Jewish and associated with communists, will she even be safe in Nazi Germany?
In the cauldron of war-torn Soviet Russia, these memorable characters are hurled against each other, to love and to hate, to kill and to die, and, for some, to conquer.
‘The Scarlet Generation’ follows, ‘The Red Gods’, ‘The Red Tide’, ‘The Seeds of Power’ and ‘The Masters ‘in The Russian Saga, depicting the overturn of Russian Society during the hundred years between 1853 and 1953.
Death of a Tyrant: Russia Saga 6: World War II has finally ended…
The Americans and the British both possess the atom bomb. And the Russians want a slice of the action.
But that’s the least of the problems in the Soviet Union.
The war might be over, but Josef Stalin is now terrorising the country as the undisputed master of Russia.
Or at least, he thinks he is…
Hated by many, feared by all, the Soviet’s supreme leader is becoming increasingly paranoid and increasingly dangerous.
He claimed victory for himself following the defeat of Nazi Germany, forcing his people to accept that the millions of Russians condemned to death in the infamous gulags was a price worth paying for the security of the Soviet system.
And now the time of reckoning has come.
The Bolugayevski family are exiled aristocrats who have long sought the downfall of the Bolshevik state.
Somehow, they survived the war and the purges of the 1930s.
A few escaped to America. Some remained, loyal to Stalin and Mother Russia. And one vanished, a tool to be brought forth to destroy Stalin forever…
Stalin’s hatred for the Bolugayevskis has long been common knowledge.
With the war over, he could finally focus his attention inward and he only had one goal in mind – to eliminate the last of the Bolugayevskis for good.
The task, naturally enough, is assigned to the head of his secret police – Lavrenty Beria.
But Beria’s ambitions reach far beyond what Stalin credits him with.
He has long dreamt of bringing down Stalin and taking his place as the most powerful man in Russia.
And it’s not long before Beria sees in Stalin’s feud with the Bolugayevskis the chance to finally bring his dream to fruition.
For the Bolugayevski family, it once more comes down to survival and it soon becomes clear that this time, not everyone will survive.
The only sure thing is that someday soon, Russia will see the Death of a Tyrant.
But will there be another ready to take his place…?
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The Seeds of Power: Russian Saga 1: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1294&t=1063464
