She eventually finds work as a washerwoman in a battle camp during the Great Northern War. It is there she meets Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great) , a ruler determined to transform Russia into a modern Western empire.
The story follows the life of , an illegitimate and destitute girl born in a remote Baltic village during the brutal Russian winter of 1699. La Zarina Ellen Alpsten epub
Available as a Kindle edition and in other eBook formats under the title Tsarina . La Zarina by Ellen Alpsten - Goodreads She eventually finds work as a washerwoman in
Reviewers on Goodreads describe it as a mix of Memoirs of a Geisha and Game of Thrones , highlighting its "ice and snow" epic feel and fast-paced, "vertiginous" rhythm. La Zarina Ellen Alpsten epub