The Jewel of St Petersburg is 2010 novel is prequel to The Russian Concubine

The Russian Concubine

The Russian Concubine is a 2007 novel by Kate Furnivall. Ths book is loosely based on the story of Furnivall's mother Lily, who was a Russian refugee...

 and The Concubine's Secret

The Concubine's Secret

The Concubine's Secret, as known as The Girl from Junchow in USA, is a 2009 novel by Kate Furnivall; it is the sequel to The Russian Concubine ...

 by Kate Furnivall and is about Lydia Ivanova Friss's parents Valetina Ivanova and Jens Friss love against the backdrop of Russia.

Plot

the story of Valentina Ivanova who was daughter of to the finance minister to Tsar Nicholas II and aspiring pianist who want be nurse after his younger sister Katya was paralysed after bomb by Bolsheviks , her father forced her to marry a Russian Count then he planned to arrested Boslsheviks. Jens Friss was Dane who came for Russia as engineer who become lover of married Countess but later he starts see Valetina playing piano at party and they begun affair and faced their trials when Valetina's friend was actually a Bolshevik leader both Jens and Valetina must survive also for their unborn daughter-Lydia

Characters

• Jens Friss : Lydia's father was Danish engineer who was lover of Nataile Serova and now Husband of Valentina
• Valentina Ivanova : Lydia's mother who was daughter of Nicholai Inanov who fallen in love with Jens and eploed with him
• Katya Ivanova : Vatleina's younger sister whom she very closed who crushed on Viktor. she is also Lydia's aunt
• Viktor Arkin: a chauffeur who feelings for Valetina who become Bolshevik leader who took Jens as prisoner later he feel betrayed by himself after Valetina starts hating him
• Captain Stepan Chernov: Valentina's fiancee
• General Nicholai Ivanov: a finance minister and general who faced the enemies. he is very dorrming and calm man who forced her daughter to married count
• Elizaveta Ivanova : Valetina's and Katya's mother who was caring and supportive to her daughter. she is also Lydia's grandmother
• Varenka Sidorova : a mother of three whose husband was a Bolshevik
• Countess Nataile Serova: an infamous countess who lover of Jens and had son named Alexai who become Valetina's rival. later her guilt for seeing Lydia begin as Jens's daughter
• Maria: Natile's niece
• Nadaia: one of Valetina's maids
• Aleksanda: one of Valetina's maids
• Liev Popkov: Valetina's friend and Cossack who found Valentina in china
• Simeon Popkove: Liev's father was also Cossicak
• Mikhail Sergeyev: Viktor's friend who was bussninessman who father of first child
• Andrei Davidov: Nicholai's friend who asked Jens to dance with his wife

External links

The Jewel of St. Petersburg