Tatiana and Alexander's impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protects-a secret as devastating as the war itself-as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatiana-and she to him. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Tatiana and Alexander The Bronze Horseman Trilogy (Series) Paullina Simons Author (2010) The Bronze Horseman The Bronze Horseman Trilogy (Series) Paullina Simons Author (2009) The Bronze Horseman with. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.

The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it.Ĭonfronted on the one hand by Hitler's vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world.The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The family suffers as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. Based on the trilogy The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons, it is the story of Tatiana and Alexanders strong love set in the Second World War:https://www. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. Petersburg, Russia, Simonss latest thick novel (after Tully, etc.) focuses on a WWII love affair. A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg.

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