"The meek will inherit the earth, child," said Ilya, stooping to Anastasia's level. "Whose side will you be on when that day comes?" ~ After the execution of the royal Romanov family of Russia in 1918, rumors swirled of the surviving Anastasia, youngest daughter and only remaining heir to the throne. Many said she escaped into the woods, yet many more said she suffered the same tragic fate as her family. The state said nothing in response, but they knew the answer. Anastasia is a wolf among the sheep, placed under the wing of stubborn Bolshevik leader Ilya Kazimavich in an attempt to convert her to the ideas of communism. Forced to assume a new Soviet identity as Yekaterina Kazimavich, Ilya struggles to instill communist doctrine in the tsar's only remaining heir, but they need her to win over the monarchists. Torn between her royal roots and Lenin's iron-fisted regime, Anastasia tries to cope with her new identity and come of age in a world where she can be anything but herself. And then she meets a Menshevik rebel and her world flips upside down.