The Daughter of an Empress

Opening on a scene of execution, and involving the dramas of Empresses, Counts and Countesses, this historical romance takes us into the realms of Russian royalty. The Empress Anna is dead and her successor is unclear. Princess Elizabeth is named to the post, but many stand in her way.

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• 1: Countess Natalie Dolgorucki
• 2: Count Munnich
• 3: Count Ostermann
• 4: The Night of the Conspiracy
• 5: Hopes Deceived
• 6: The Regent Anna Leopoldowna
• 7: The Favorite
• 8: No Love
• 9: Princess Elizabeth
• 10: A Conspiracy
• 11: The Warning
• 12: The Court Ball
• 13: The Pencil-Sketch
• 14: The Revolution
• 15: The Sleep of Innocence
• 16: The Recompensing
• 17: Punishment
• 18: The Palace of the Empress
• 19: Eleonore Lapuschkin
• 20: A Wedding
• 21: Scenes and Portraits
• 22: Princes Also Must Die
• 23: The Charmed Garden
• 24: The Letters
• 25: Diplomatic Quarrels
• 26: The Fish Feud
• 27: Pope Ganganelli (Clement XIV)
• 28: The Pope's Recreation Hour
• 29: A Death-Sentence
• 30: The Festival of Cardinal Bernis
• 31: The Improvisatrice
• 32: The Departure
• 33: An Honest Betrayer
• 34: Alexis Orloff
• 35: Corilla
• 36: The Holy Chafferers
• 37: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
• 38: The Vapo
• 39: The Invasion
• 40: Intrigues
• 41: The Russian Officer
• 42: Anticipation
• 43: He
• 44: The Warning
• 45: The Russian Fleet
• 46: Conclusion