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19thcentury duke historical historicalfiction mystery nihilism philosophy poetry politics

"I fear a terrible fate has befallen me, a most poetic one-- romantic, even."
In the 1860s of St Petersburg, poet Nikolay Karakozov finds himself entrapped in a numbing lack of inspiration, during which his desperate search for a muse becomes ever more obsessive with each torturous ode as he becomes entwined in the lives and affairs of his aristocratic patrons.
Meanwhile, Polina Lebedev, daughter of a Duke, begins unraveling the secret web of political conspiracy and social hypocrisy surrounding the elite nobles of Russia, including that of her own family's dark history.All Rights Reserved

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