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Article: Alexander, Robert. The Romanov bride.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)

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ALEXANDER, Robert. The Romanov bride. Read by Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle De Cuir. 8 cds. 9.5 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2008. 978-1-4332-1401-1. $80.00. Vinyl; plot, author notes. SA

This novel is based on the life of Russian Grand Duchess Elisavyeta, sister of Tsarina Alexandra. De Cuir's reading is beautiful and captures the gentleness of Elisavyeta and then her developing strength as she goes from the pampered, though neglected, wife of royalty to the founder of an order of nuns after the death of her husband. Rudnicki portrays Pavel, a peasant thrust into the early 20th-century Russian Revolution when his young wife and unborn child are killed in one of the ...

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