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The Ball

THE MODEST MANOR DID NOT HAVE A GILDED CEILING and the Tsar and Tsarina would not attend. However, several hundred people crowded the room just the same. Continue reading

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Mother Arrives

AUNTIE MASHA, I THINK THIS GOWN MAY NEED A DIFFERENT SASH.” Before the Countess could respond to Kira, Continue reading

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The Musketeers Arrive

THE DIMLY LIT TAVERN with heavy soot walls and air that held an odor of sour mash was the best accommodations the boys could find in Moscow. Continue reading

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The Fiancé

Kira peered down from the top of the stairs to see Colonel Mikhail Vershinin standing in the foyer. Her memory did not recall him as a stout man with a scruffy beard. The Colonel wore a dark blue high-collared double-breasted tunic with a thin belt cinched around his belly and straight-legged trousers. Continue reading

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