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The White Night of St. Petersburg by Prince Michael of Greece is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The White Night of St. Petersburg about?
One morning in July of 1998, all the Romanovs still living assembled in the lobby of the recently renovated Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg. They were waiting to attend the solemn burial of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children, murdered eighty years earlier, who were finally to be interred together. Prince Michael of Greece was there because his grandmother, Grand Duchess Olga, was a Romanov. She left Russian at sixteen to marry George I of Greece. While at the ceremony, Prince Michael spied a dazzling older woman on the fringes of the crowd and, curious to know her connection, traveled to Moscow to meet her. Her name was Natalya Androssov Iskander Romanov and over tea Prince Michael listened to the long-buried story of her grandfather, the Grand Duke Nicholas. To Prince Michaels utter surprise, the royal family had erased his existence from their official vaults. Nataylas memories are the only key to his past, and as she begins to tell Prince Michael her grandfather's story, the narrative fades to a snow-filled St. Petersburg morning in November of 1860. There begins a fantastic re-imagining of the life of this rebellious and dashing Duke. Young Nicholas idolize
Who reads The White Night of St. Petersburg?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Prince Michael of Greece
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780871139221
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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