The Midwife of St. Petersburg (2012)
“Petersburg SIX The Secret Meeting August 1914, Kiev The August moon ascended above the vast Peshkov fields of ripened wheat like a mammoth globe of shimmering gold. Across the sky, trails of fiery red, deepening into copper, drifted over the distant steppes. Karena, flanked by Sergei and Ilya Jilinsky, walked along the dusty wagon road between the fields awarded to the family more than two generations earlier by the grandfather of Czar Nicholas II.
The warm, scented winds stirred, bringing the ...fragrance of rich vegetation, baked earth, and a copious harvest. Dust stirred up around Karena’s high-button shoes, and she worried about soiling her lace-hemmed, red and white skirt. She wanted to look intelligent and professional when she met Dr. Lenski’s son Petrov and his sister Ivanna at the Bolshevik meeting that evening.
“You worry too much, Ilya,” Sergei continued. “Nothing will go wrong. The meeting will be safe. No one even knows Lenski’s here.”
Ilya’s brows, made fair by the long, hot summer in the fields, formed a straight furrow above the bridge of his nose.MoreLess
The warm, scented winds stirred, bringing the ...fragrance of rich vegetation, baked earth, and a copious harvest. Dust stirred up around Karena’s high-button shoes, and she worried about soiling her lace-hemmed, red and white skirt. She wanted to look intelligent and professional when she met Dr. Lenski’s son Petrov and his sister Ivanna at the Bolshevik meeting that evening.
“You worry too much, Ilya,” Sergei continued. “Nothing will go wrong. The meeting will be safe. No one even knows Lenski’s here.”
Ilya’s brows, made fair by the long, hot summer in the fields, formed a straight furrow above the bridge of his nose.MoreLess
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