For more than three hundred years, the Romanovs ruled the Russia of the tsars first and later under their later denomination as emperors. But really everything was the same, absolutism around a servile aristocracy. And precisely in this oppressive scenario until the bloody final revolution of 1917, it is also interesting to observe the feminist aspect of history. Not so long ago that Espido Freire wrote an interesting novel «Call me Alejandra»And now we have this other plot by the British author Imogen Edwards-Jones, as exciting as the one already mentioned about other protagonists of those days as real as Alejandra, only surrounded by a strange nebula around the esoteric, the magic black and many other enigmatic arts ...
Before continuing with these protagonists, it must be recognized that in this novel we find a setting that is scrupulously respectful of the events on which the plot is introduced. And precisely that meticulous setting serves us for that greater mimicry of all historical fiction. Only, among brushstrokes of that former Russia, little by little, we advance in a frenetic action in the hands of a triangle of women. In the first place the sisters Anastasia and Militza, aristocrats of the Russian court by marriage of convenience and seers by vocation, as recognized by History.
With these two women in the Russian court and with the complicity of Alejandra herself, the last tsarina, we enjoy a disturbing plot, on the precipice of a social environment in whose latency the buried echo of the nearby revolution sounds. The two new aristocrats arrived from Montenegro will take over those spaces of power gained from their dark spells, through concoctions and with gloomy invocations.
Until another of the darkest characters in Russian history appears to blow everything up in the planning of the witch apprentices. It is about Rasputin, at the height of the magician Merlin, only with a greater historical foundation and with graphic documentation. When you look at a photo of Rasputin, his gaze seems to traverse time.
With the same energy in her gaze, the meeting of the two women with Rasputin will end up writing the most fascinating parallel story of those last years of the Romanovs.
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