The Tsar's Woman

The daughter of a minor Russian aristocrat, Anastasia Romanovna was fifteen years old when she was chosen over more than ten thousand other girls to become the bride of sixteen-year-old Ivan IV, first Tsar of Russia. Charming, beautiful and enchantingly naive, her story is a rich fabric of dangerous intrigues, of evil plots, of intense jealousies, and of blinding passion. They said she was a witch who used her powers to capture the most powerful man in Russia! From fabulous balls in golden palaces to hunting parties at splendid country dachas, "The Tsar's Woman" evokes all the power and glamor of an exotic era long gone.