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Eva Stachniak

The School of Mirrors

By Eva Stachniak - Published 2022

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Eva Stachniak focuses on an intense era: France from 1755 to 1793. The School of Mirrors is a three-generation epic, divided into five parts. As ...Read Review

The Chosen Maiden

By Eva Stachniak - Published 2017

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In her fifth novel, Eva Stachniak tells the story of real-life dancers Bronia Nijinska and Vaslav Nijinsky, siblings who took the world of ...Read Review

Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great

By Eva Stachniak - Published 2014

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Biographical Fiction

It is 9 AM on November 5, 1796. Catherine II, Empress of Russia, is 67 years old. Her splitting headache is followed by numbness in her hand. ...Read Review

The Winter Palace

By Eva Stachniak - Published 2012

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

When shy Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst arrives at the Russian court to marry Empress Elizabeth Petrovna’s nephew and heir, Peter, no one ...Read Review