I’ve been super into the Romanovs and have read three fictional books on the last tsar of Russia. Any recs you have on the Romanovs or any good fictional books set in or involves Russia I’d really appreciate it!
Have you read [The Blood Stiller](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21263379) series by Minerva Taylor? HIGHLY intriguing & entertaining reads, I definitely recommend for fellow Russophiles & Romanov junkies. 😀
_Ipatiev House, Ekaterinburg Siberia, July 1918: On the eve of his execution, in a desperate attempt to save the Romanov Dynasty, Tsar Nicholas Il signs in secret his last Ukase, an irrevocable royal edict, bestowing untold riches and power on his legitimate heir, ‘the one designated by blood’._
_New York City, 1970: Christina Gartner, a young socialite divorcee befriends her new neighbor, Mme. Antonova, an elderly White Russian émigré who escaped the Russian Revolution with her two children. The charming Mme. A. captivates Christina with stories of her escape, but are they the truth?_
_The friendship catapults Christina into a cat and mouse game with a ruthless aging Bolshevik on the hunt for the Tsar’s long lost and explosive Ukase so he can take control of the Russian government and the country’s mining riches. It’s up to Christina and a NYC cop to find the Ukase and the secrets of the Blood Stiller, before the sinister émigré conspiracy in contemporary New York does._
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The only one I’ve read is Doctor Zhivago🤷♂️
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Akunin’s Fandorin series is set, mostly, in tsarist Russia. It’s a crime fiction, but he’s a historian by education so it’s pretty accurate historically.
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Have you read [The Blood Stiller](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21263379) series by Minerva Taylor? HIGHLY intriguing & entertaining reads, I definitely recommend for fellow Russophiles & Romanov junkies. 😀
_Ipatiev House, Ekaterinburg Siberia, July 1918: On the eve of his execution, in a desperate attempt to save the Romanov Dynasty, Tsar Nicholas Il signs in secret his last Ukase, an irrevocable royal edict, bestowing untold riches and power on his legitimate heir, ‘the one designated by blood’._
_New York City, 1970: Christina Gartner, a young socialite divorcee befriends her new neighbor, Mme. Antonova, an elderly White Russian émigré who escaped the Russian Revolution with her two children. The charming Mme. A. captivates Christina with stories of her escape, but are they the truth?_
_The friendship catapults Christina into a cat and mouse game with a ruthless aging Bolshevik on the hunt for the Tsar’s long lost and explosive Ukase so he can take control of the Russian government and the country’s mining riches. It’s up to Christina and a NYC cop to find the Ukase and the secrets of the Blood Stiller, before the sinister émigré conspiracy in contemporary New York does._
The only one I’ve read is Doctor Zhivago🤷♂️
Akunin’s Fandorin series is set, mostly, in tsarist Russia. It’s a crime fiction, but he’s a historian by education so it’s pretty accurate historically.