We are in East Prussia, they are all cousins, there are some on one side of the border, they are Germans and on the other side, they are Russians.
This beautiful summer is carefree, the Prussian cousins are raised in the fanatic love of the homeland and the Kaiser, those subjects of the Tsar are loyal to the white eagle of the Romanovs. A beautiful summer disrupted by the assassination of the Archduke heir of Austria. It’s the gears of war. They want it fresh and joyful.
Alas, the conflict lasts and seems to never end. Death comes to strike these families. Then there is the revolution in Russia, it brews in Germany. It is in this world where a world, that of the aristocracy and its values, has collapsed, that the author takes us.
Will the heroine succeed in saving Lulinn, the family estate? We follow Felicia across Prussia, Russia, and the Baltic countries where war and revolution bleed and ignite towns and countryside. A saga, that of a woman whom nothing will spare.
A novel and at the same time a page of history. That of Germany and Russia whose destinies were ignited in a collective suicide which will lead to another tragedy, that of the thirties with the rise of Nazism.
Thierry Jan, writer
