The Candlesticks and the Cross
A Historical, Cultural, Russia book. Nice style, very vivid and descriptive. Insightful on historic times and political detail. Not as good as the first novel...
Set against the background of the decaying Russian Empire when the mad monk Rasputin ruled in the royal court, when Tartars threatened to sack the Ukraine, and when the Jew's life was forfeit to whim, THE CANDLESTICKS AND THE CROSS is an intense, enthralling epic. It surges through the last years of Tsar Nicholas' reign and charts the climactic end of an era.Intimately involved with the great evens of those tumultuous, bloody years is the highly placed von Glasman family. Elegant, wealthy, and handsome, landowners, financial advisers to the Tsar, and united through marriage to the royal family itself, the von Glasmans were practicing Jews-and as such subject to tragic and oppressive persecution.The exotic...
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- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9780515052497 / 515052493
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I read this years ago and really enjoyed it. Nice style, very vivid and descriptive. Insightful on historic times and political detail. Not as good as the first novel since the most dramatic stuff has already happened, Tamara introduced. I thought the back jacket saying "Julie - the shy beauty who married Igor but longed for his brother" was a mistake, if she pined for anybody... This is the third book and I didn't like it as well as the others, it was good.
