by Eva Stachniak · Insel Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458359708
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«Der Winterpalast» is a historical novel by Eva Stachniak, published by Insel Verlag GmbH in paperback (533 pages, in German).
Varvara, an orphan who enters service at the Winter Palace, learns to navigate corridors, silences and rumors until she becomes a discreet spy at court. Her life changes with the arrival of Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, the future Catherine the Great, who needs an ally on her path to the throne; between the two grows a friendship marked by ambition and mistrust.
Der Winterpalast is the first installment of the Catherine series, a translation from English by Peter Knecht published in 2013; the original, The Winter Palace, appeared in 2012.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in eighteenth-century Russia, the court of Catherine the Great and palace intrigues.
Eva Stachniak is a Polish-Canadian novelist.
