Why did Nikolai have to live in this time? All he wanted was a quiet place. Somewhere between all the events of history—the war and butchery, the revolutions that smeared cobblestoned streets with blood, the religious fanaticism, the burning of cities—there must have been so many quiet times, so many safe places. Gaps in which a person could hide an entire life: times when a person could live from birth to death without the events of history destroying their happiness. A life lived in simple comfort. A life of meals, celebrations, births, deaths that occurred in their prescribed, generational
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