The soldier, Alexander, gets on the same bus as Tatiana and rides with her all over the city, and then eventually back home. On her way to the store, Tatiana stops for an ice cream when she spots a soldier staring at her from across the street. Tatiana’s parents send her to the store to buy all the food she can. Germany has invaded Russian and they march toward Leningrad. Seventeen year old Tatiana, has known nothing but long summers full of ice cream and day dreams.īut all that changes when the declaration of war is announced. You will be rewarded with a love story so pure and a relationship so multi-faceted that if you like love stories at all, I suspect you, too, will adore this book.In Leningrad, life is about to change in a big way. The cards they have been dealt are completely unjust, and this book will weigh heavily on you as you read it.ĭon’t let that deter you, though. Someone I know complained about this book saying that it was too “oppressive,” and frankly, I think that’s the perfect word to describe it. Their story takes place when the Leningrad blockage is at its very worst, and the hardships and trials that these two face is heart-breaking and relentless. The first book spans a little over a year, yet so much happens in this time. This is an epic love story if I’ve ever read one. From that point onward you are woven through a gut-wrenching story of two young people who fell in love at the completely wrong time. The day that war is declared in Russia, 17-year-old Tatiana fatefully meets secretive Alexander, a soldier in the Red Army.

Petersburg) during the infamous and deadly Leningrad blockade.

The Bronze Horseman is a story of forbidden love set in World War II Leningrad (now St. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. Published by HarperCollins on January 1st 1970īuy on Amazon, Buy on Barnes & Noble, Buy from The Book Depositoryĭuring the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. This book has easily become one of my favorites of 2016 and very likely one of my favorites of all-time. I have finished a love story so masterful and perfect in its execution that I don’t even know where to begin to write a review for it.

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