Elena, the Emperor's Envoy's Wife

Leaving St Petersburg in 1879 to travel across Russia to her sister’s estate, Elena needs a respectable travelling companion. A single chance encounter at the train station gives her an appropriate female companion, but also a potential lover, and eventually an unexpected husband.

Her onward journey across the Russian plains as wife of the Emperor’s envoy to the Viceroy’s court at Tiflis in the wild Caucasus, takes many dramatic turns as attacks by bandits, kidnappers and rebels take all of Elena’s courage to survive.