Simon Montefiore is an award-winning British journalist and historian and the author of Young Stalin, which won the Biography of the Year Prize at the Costa Book Awards.
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Winter, 1917: In St. Petersburg snow is falling, and Russia is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret p... SEE MORE