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Russia, 1916. Nina Ivanovna's world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg, to escape the past and find a future. Stefan Kolodin is a medical student - young and idealistic, he wants change for Russia and its people. Amidst the chaos of a city in revolt, their lives collide. And a stormy relationship develops . . . But soon Nina is drawn into the lavish lives of the royal family and begins to fall under the spell of their mysterious monk, Grigory Rasputin. The ruby studded dagger he owns is, chillingly, a mirror image of the one left to Nina by her father. And it carries a deadly curse.