Stachniak Eva: Winter Palace (A Novel of the Young Catherine the Great)
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When Vavara, a young orphaned Polish girl, is brought to serve at Empress Elizabeth's glittering, dangerous court in St Petersburg, she is schooled by the Chancellor himself in skills from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent — and listen. Soon, she is Elizabeth's 'tongue' — her secret eyes and ears. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as…