The Rasputin Dagger Av Theresa Breslin

<p><b>Shortlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills Award 2018</b></p><p>Russia, 1916. </p><p>Nina Ivanovna’s world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg, to escape the past and find a future.</p><p>Stefan Kolodin is a medical student – young and idealistic, he wants change for Russia and its people.</p><p>Amidst the chaos of a city in revolt, their lives collide. And a stormy relationship develops . . . full of passion and politics.</p><p>But soon Nina is drawn in to the glamorous, lavish lives of the Russian royal family – where she begins to fall under the spell of their mysterious monk, Grigory Rasputin. The ruby-studded dagger he carries – beautiful and deadly – could save her and Stefan from a cursed life </p><p>. . . or condemn them to it.</p><p>‘An outstanding writer – simply superb’ <i>Independent </i></p>