ISBN: 1854810227
Godina izdanja: 1989
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Robert Tyler Stevenson - Summer Day is Done
Heywood Books, 1989
347 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, beleške grafitnom olovkom na petoj strani.

When young British agent John Kirby is sent to Russia in 1911, he does not expect to fall in love. Then an invitation to a ball arrives and, after an evening of dancing and romance, John and the Tsar`s eldest daughter, Olga, are totally captivated by one another.

But just as love begins to blossom, a cruel blow is dealt. John is forced to return to England and Olga and her family are caught up in the bitter and bloody war of 1914. Can their love survive the odds? Or will tragedy, pain and longing destroy them both?


At Livadia, when summer day is done and evening softens the warm shadows, the ghosts of innocents scamper over the green lawns, their laughter caught as whisper in the trees, and every still pool reflects the deep blue eyes of a dreaming girl.`

John Kirby was a British secret agent. Olga was the oldest daughter of Czar Nicholas and his Empress, Alexandra. It was 1911. Imperial Russia was already in its death throes, torn between evil manipulators and determined revolutionaries such as Rasputin and Lenin. But still, women in dazzling gowns and men in lavishly decorated uniforms whirled around opulent ballrooms and took drives in splendid carriages. Palaces and villas still gleamed in the sun, winter and summer.

While the storm gathered, John Kirby played tennis with Nicholas, frolicked with Nicholas` children and floated on the delicious laughter of his radian Olga. But even the aching, unfulfilled happiness they won was not to remain undisturbed. Grand Duchesses are not destined to share their lives with untitled Englishmen. Glorious summer days do not last forever. The memories, however, do linger. And the images so hauntingly painted by R.T. Stevens-the characters ad the world they inhabit-will glow long after the last page of this novel has been turned.


Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction