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Original Title:	Sashenka
ISBN:	1416595546 (ISBN13: 9781416595540)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Moscow Trilogy #1
Setting:	Saint Petersburg(Russian Federation) Moscow(Russian Federation) Tbilisi(Georgia)

Sashenka (Moscow Trilogy #1)

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hardcover | Pages: 522 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 4401 Users | 472 Reviews

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Title	:	Sashenka (Moscow Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Simon Sebag Montefiore
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 522 pages
Published	:	November 11th 2008 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Fiction

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Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar’s secret police… Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka has a powerful husband with whom she has two children. Around her people are disappearing, but her own family is safe. But she's about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heart-breaking tale of passion and betrayal, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism - and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.

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Ratings: 4.02 From 4401 Users | 472 Reviews

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Thanks to this book, I really see why people would be so interested in the early Soviet history. This was an incredible novel that really helps you feel the magnitude of the events that took place. The Soviet empire was more than a government, it was an ideal, it was method of organizing every day life and even familial connections, which ideally were second to the mother state. I admired the heroes in this story for their selflessness and courage in the face of the giant Soviet personalities.

Historically interesting depiction of a terrible brutal time in Russia. Some characters (Sashenka's mother, lover)were less convincing than others but this is a compelling read. Just a few chapters in, it was apparent that horrendous things were about to happen to Sashenka's family, but I was hooked by then and couln't put the book down.



This book has gone on to my all time favourite lists. I cried I laughed I loved all through this book. I studied the history of Russia for A Level's two years ago now. From the Tsarist regime to the eventual rise and fall of Stalin. This book made everything I learnt from the Bolshevik uprising to the reign of Stalin and the Purges/Great Terror feel so much more real. Granted we learnt of these things and there was historic accounts of it, but this ficitonal piece of writing, although not a true

i stopped reading this - which is unusual for me. it came highly recommended but i did not enjoy it - the writing style was almost teenage level.

I really couldn't put this book down. A delicate yet to the point style, at times filled with candid loving descriptions of a perfect family, then horrific telling with the most intricate and open details of terrors. It was a touching story, I was taken aback by the atrocities in the years of Terror in URSS. It really touched a sensitive cord and I plan to read more on the Stalin's Russia and the totalitarian system. So many lives broken apart, torn to pieces, changed forever. The only thing

The third part of Sashenka's story, clears up much of the mystery of what happened to her and her children after 'disappearing' in Stalin's Russia. Young historical researcher Katina is invited in 1994, to find out the family background of Roza, living with her ageing oligarch husband in London. Montefiore is an academic, so his fiction is credible; and this story is all the more intriguing and shocking, for that reason. We read transcripts of 'confessions' and 'trials' from Stalin's archives