![]() Eugenie Fraser herself was brought up in Russia but was taken on visits to Scotland. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction: the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede with Tsar Aleksandr II for her husband the extraordinary courtship of her parents and her Scottish granny being caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905. ![]() Book excerpt: The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. This book was released on with total page 384 pages. ![]() Book Synopsis The House by the Dvina by : Eugenie Fraserĭownload or read book The House by the Dvina written by Eugenie Fraser and published by Random House. ![]()
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