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Title: Zoya by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0-440-20385-6 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 04 June, 1989 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Totally stunning!
Comment: I would like to thank Ms Danielle Steel for this wonderful book. I read it in 2 days. I've read many books by this author, but this one without a doubt is the best! I am from Russia myself and was shocked by the fact how much an American author knows about Russian history. Are the events described in the book true? In Russian schools in my schooling time (1979-89) they tought us that it was great that Revolution happened; that everyone should be equal and that it was good that Tsar Romanov had to give up his royalty and was killed. We belived them at the time. Now I know how hard it was for the royal family and that they were real people too and had to go throught a lot. I cryed through the whole book. Zoya's life went through my eyes like I was there with her. This book is really wonderful.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book rich in words and character.
Comment: When I picked up this novel I had no idea how much it would change my life. It puts you right in the middle of the Russian Revolution where you meet Zoya, the cousin of the doomed Romanovs. She is forced to flee to France with her grandmother and start over as a poor woman. In this book the emotions flow thick with the gentle but rich and heavy words. When I read this beautiful book it was like a dam was breaking free and flooding my mind with so many beautiful images and pictures. When I put the book I thanked the world and God for such a wonderful and moving novel. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Zoya
Comment: I must say that this is an intriguing book to read, thoroughly enjoyable, and very earnest in the feelings it conveys. However, as a Romanov afficionado I fundamentally oppose putting words into the mouths of the Tsar's family. Also, some glaring mistakes were made in their descriptions:
First, Joy was NOT Maria's (Mashka's) dog, nor was it a female! HE was a liver spaniel and belonged to Tsarevich Aleksei, Marie's younger brother. The reason I know he couldn't be a girl is, first, accounts of those who knew him and the family, and, second, the fact that "JOY" in Russian sounds positively like a male name.
Marie herself had a pet mouse, her sisters Anastasia had a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Jemmy (though some say he originally belonged to Tatiana), Tatiana had a French bulldog named Ortino (who was a girl), and Olga had a cat named Vaska.
Also, somehow it seems improbable that a COUNTESS, which is rather low a title in Russia (Grand Duke and Prince come above it!) could be a cousin to the Tsar.
No blood was shed in the days of the Revolution, nor in the Bolshevik coup d'etat; the book says that "hundreds of people were dead by the end of the day."
Finally, the book depicts the Revolution as happening in a snap, and immediately Bolshevik. That is very, very wrong indeed. All of 1917 and part of 1916 endured strikes and random violence in Petrograd. Plus, after the Revolution came a summer of non-Bolshevik rule, though they were, of course, very powerful already...
However, the book was very good outside of that. Though again, another comment, most White emigres tended to keep up the Russian language and culture in their children, while Zoya doesn't do this... She could, of course, be called an exception, but somehow the fact that her children don't speak Russian sounds weird.
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Title: Remembrance by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0440173701 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0440201926 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Changes by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0440111811 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Loving by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0440146577 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 May, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Season of Passion by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0440177049 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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