Zoia's Gold
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Stockholm 1999. Madam Zoia, the enigmatic painter on gold, is dead. The last-known survior of the Romanov court, she leaves behind a house full of paintings, a collection of private papers, and a mystery.
Marcus Elliot travels to Sweden to write the catalogue that will accompany the sale of her work. But something feels wrong. Behind the gilded serenity of Zoia's work lie the shadows of a secret life: a miraculous escape from the Revolutionary torturers of the Lubyanka, an artistic journey that embraced the excesses of Bohemian Paris, and an unearthly ability to command the devotion of beautiful men.
Marcus is to be Zoia's last, triumphant seduction but with time against him, he must lay his own ghosts to rest - the scandal that ruined him, the tragedy that shattered his childhood - before the priceless truth can come within his grasp.
(Bought at a library sale.)
Stockholm 1999. Madam Zoia, the enigmatic painter on gold, is dead. The last-known survior of the Romanov court, she leaves behind a house full of paintings, a collection of private papers, and a mystery.
Marcus Elliot travels to Sweden to write the catalogue that will accompany the sale of her work. But something feels wrong. Behind the gilded serenity of Zoia's work lie the shadows of a secret life: a miraculous escape from the Revolutionary torturers of the Lubyanka, an artistic journey that embraced the excesses of Bohemian Paris, and an unearthly ability to command the devotion of beautiful men.
Marcus is to be Zoia's last, triumphant seduction but with time against him, he must lay his own ghosts to rest - the scandal that ruined him, the tragedy that shattered his childhood - before the priceless truth can come within his grasp.
(Bought at a library sale.)
What a page-turner and intriguing read.The story is a mix of fiction and biography based on private papers Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky left behind.
What I enjoyed most is the unravelling of Zoia's life by interweaving her private letters with the fictional part, and the vivid insights into her artwork. And they could write letters back then.
