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Original Title:	Sashenka
ISBN:	1416595546 (ISBN13: 9781416595540)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Moscow Trilogy #1
Setting:	Saint Petersburg(Russian Federation) Moscow(Russian Federation) Tbilisi(Georgia)

Sashenka (Moscow Trilogy #1) Hardcover | Pages: 522 pages

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Title	:	Sashenka (Moscow Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Simon Sebag Montefiore
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 522 pages
Published	:	November 11th 2008 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Fiction

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Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar’s secret police… Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka has a powerful husband with whom she has two children. Around her people are disappearing, but her own family is safe. But she's about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heart-breaking tale of passion and betrayal, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism - and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.

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Historically interesting depiction of a terrible brutal time in Russia. Some characters (Sashenka's mother, lover)were less convincing than others but this is a compelling read. Just a few chapters in, it was apparent that horrendous things were about to happen to Sashenka's family, but I was hooked by then and couln't put the book down.

This book has gone on to my all time favourite lists. I cried I laughed I loved all through this book. I studied the history of Russia for A Level's two years ago now. From the Tsarist regime to the eventual rise and fall of Stalin. This book made everything I learnt from the Bolshevik uprising to the reign of Stalin and the Purges/Great Terror feel so much more real. Granted we learnt of these things and there was historic accounts of it, but this ficitonal piece of writing, although not a true

I picked this one up because I read a good review in the paper. I wasn't as impressed as the reviewer was. Sashenka (I do love that nickname), is a young girl in Russia before the revolution. She gets involved with the revolutionaries and delivers messages for them, writes articles under an assumed name, etc. After the revolution, she and her husband are important Party members, with two kids, a nice dacha and even an American refrigerator. But then Sashenka does a VERY STUPID THING and gets

Thanks to this book, I really see why people would be so interested in the early Soviet history. This was an incredible novel that really helps you feel the magnitude of the events that took place. The Soviet empire was more than a government, it was an ideal, it was method of organizing every day life and even familial connections, which ideally were second to the mother state. I admired the heroes in this story for their selflessness and courage in the face of the giant Soviet personalities.

I am setting this one aside 30-odd pages in for two main reasons:1) Pacing within scenes seems off and characters not quite believable.2) Holy male gaze, Batman! Literally the first thing we learn about the (16-year-old) protagonist is her breast size. They are, in case you wanted to know (I didn't), "the fullest breasts in her class." As we are told from her own POV. Meanwhile her governess is off ogling the headmistress, or so I presume by the fact that when the author writes from said

Historically interesting depiction of a terrible brutal time in Russia. Some characters (Sashenka's mother, lover)were less convincing than others but this is a compelling read. Just a few chapters in, it was apparent that horrendous things were about to happen to Sashenka's family, but I was hooked by then and couln't put the book down.

One of those books you keep thinking about for days after finishing. Heartbreaking and historically interesting. Once the action got moving in book 2 and 3 I couldn't put it down. Twists and turns galore.