Alexei And The Second Empress

It is 1917, in the final days of Imperial Russia. Young Alexei Karlovich Shafirov, an infirm skeptic, finds himself bedridden after a fall. Throughout the long recovery his mother and girlfriend speak to him of parables, uprisings and a magic royal family under house detention. At the heart of their stories is Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, the former tsesarevich and once-heir apparent. Like him, Alexei Romanov is a hemophiliac, near the center of a decades-old political cabal. Both boys are prone to mischief, self-indulgence and illness. But some insist the connection runs deeper than that.Alexei and the Second Empress is an alternate-history account of the end of the Russian tsars. In equal measures fairy tale and cruel realism, it is a place of superstition, opulence, substance abuse, metal golems and vengeful Bolsheviks. Yet here, the most profound secret of all--that of the boy's true nature--may not come to light until his parents' deaths, or his own.

• | Author: Fred Nolan
• | Publisher: Emery Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0999204785
• | ISBN-13: 9780999204788