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Russian Saga #3
The Red Tide
Russia, 1911.
The country is still recovering from the disastrous effects of her defeat by Japan six years earlier when the assassination of Prime Minister Peter Stolypin plunges the country into chaos.
Colin’s son Alexei is married to Princess Sonia with two children: Colin, named after his grandfather and Anna, named after the formidable Countess Anna.
Meanwhile Duncan and Patricia are in England, far away from the troubles of Russia. But when they hear of the assassination, and Countess Anna is injured in the process, they hurry to her aid with their children Joseph and Jennie.
The men investigating the crime are Feodor Klinski and Michaelin and they can’t help but remember Sonia’s past associations with a terrorist group…
Sonia and Patricia set out with their children to St Petersburg and to the house of Nathalie and Dagmar, Colin’s original family where they meet Father Gregory Rasputin. When their husbands hear about this and knowing Rasputin’s notorious reputation, they follow them to the city.
When they learn of the women’s relations with Rasputin, Alexei refuses to with Sonia and she is banned from Bolugayen. He quickly finds a new wife in Duncan’s niece, Priscilla.
Meanwhile, Trotsky comes to see Sonia, saying he knows her from her days with Patricia in Siberia and Patricia is meeting with Lenin in London.
Are they behind the revolution?
Meanwhile, over the Bolugayevski family looms the sinister shadow of the Monk Rasputin.
When war breaks out between Russia and Germany in August 1914, the old order is torn apart and the Revolution explodes. Alexei goes to fight, leaving pregnant Priscilla at Bolugayen.
Then there are reports that Alexei is dead. Could they be true?
And who is now the rightful Prince? Colin or his new-born son from Priscilla?
Meanwhile the Tsar has abdicated and Sonia is arrested and raped by Klinski and Michaelin. Luckily she is saved...except it is by Rasputin…
Although the Bolugayevskis fight for their existence with all of their courage and tenacity, they know their lives can never be the same again, especially when Sonia, Nathalie, Patricia and Priscilla all come together at Bolugayen and the attacks begin…
‘The Red Tide’ is the third gripping instalment of Christopher Nicole’s The Russian Saga series, depicting the overturn of Russian Society during the hundred years between 1853 and 1953.
The country is still recovering from the disastrous effects of her defeat by Japan six years earlier when the assassination of Prime Minister Peter Stolypin plunges the country into chaos.
Colin’s son Alexei is married to Princess Sonia with two children: Colin, named after his grandfather and Anna, named after the formidable Countess Anna.
Meanwhile Duncan and Patricia are in England, far away from the troubles of Russia. But when they hear of the assassination, and Countess Anna is injured in the process, they hurry to her aid with their children Joseph and Jennie.
The men investigating the crime are Feodor Klinski and Michaelin and they can’t help but remember Sonia’s past associations with a terrorist group…
Sonia and Patricia set out with their children to St Petersburg and to the house of Nathalie and Dagmar, Colin’s original family where they meet Father Gregory Rasputin. When their husbands hear about this and knowing Rasputin’s notorious reputation, they follow them to the city.
When they learn of the women’s relations with Rasputin, Alexei refuses to with Sonia and she is banned from Bolugayen. He quickly finds a new wife in Duncan’s niece, Priscilla.
Meanwhile, Trotsky comes to see Sonia, saying he knows her from her days with Patricia in Siberia and Patricia is meeting with Lenin in London.
Are they behind the revolution?
Meanwhile, over the Bolugayevski family looms the sinister shadow of the Monk Rasputin.
When war breaks out between Russia and Germany in August 1914, the old order is torn apart and the Revolution explodes. Alexei goes to fight, leaving pregnant Priscilla at Bolugayen.
Then there are reports that Alexei is dead. Could they be true?
And who is now the rightful Prince? Colin or his new-born son from Priscilla?
Meanwhile the Tsar has abdicated and Sonia is arrested and raped by Klinski and Michaelin. Luckily she is saved...except it is by Rasputin…
Although the Bolugayevskis fight for their existence with all of their courage and tenacity, they know their lives can never be the same again, especially when Sonia, Nathalie, Patricia and Priscilla all come together at Bolugayen and the attacks begin…
‘The Red Tide’ is the third gripping instalment of Christopher Nicole’s The Russian Saga series, depicting the overturn of Russian Society during the hundred years between 1853 and 1953.
352 pages, Library Binding
First published November 23, 1995
About the author
Christopher Nicole
225 books58 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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