Author Archive: Ellen Alpsten

AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Ellen Alpsten Interviews Tsarina

Lover, murder, mother, Tsarina. Memoirs of a Geisha meets Game of Thrones in this page-turning epic charting the untold story – the extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of Catherine I Spring 1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at […]