Another Place, Another Spring -

Adrienne Jones

Houghton Mifflin Company

1971

285 páginas

9h 30m

ISBN-1: 0

As the two categories left St Petesburg in the spring of 1840, Marya Breshnevskaya knew that each turn of the wheels left forever behind them Tsrskoye Celo, the summer palace, and all those years of ease, comfort and security. For Marya and her mistress, Countess Ellena Pavlovna, who has been like a sister to her, suddenly find themselves political prisioners like Ellena's own father some years before. Wrenched from their carriage by the imperial secret police, they are now to begin the long trek across the expanse of Russia to Siberia.
A Novel of immense scope, ANOTHER PLACE, ANOTHER SPRING is vivid in its portrayal of the varying Russian countryside, the physical and psychological hardships the two girls are forced to endure, and the peasant and nobleman alike who help them to survive. The story is primarily one of people, and as it develops, it becomes Marya's and Captain Boris Branov's story. Marya discovers that Branov isn't the man he seemed when they left St. Petesburg under his police escort.
This is an engrossing and exciting romantic adventure of two courageous people who struggle to escape the political turmoil of the country they love and make a new life for themselves on the newly styled California coast. Here they look forward to a new spring - spring with a promise quite different from the one they were faced with only a year before.
ADRIENNE JONES tells her story with great compassion and strength.