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Novelist Ellen Alpsten on why the real Russia is just as beguiling as she'd imagined
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telegraph.co.ukThe author's epic debut was set in 18th-century Russia, and modern-day St Petersburg is equally as strange and sensuous ‘Why don’t I take you to St.
Petersburg?’ my husband asked on Christmas Eve a couple of years ago, handing me a home-made voucher: clippings of the Winter Palace and Russian dolls.
I had finally finished writing my debut novel Tsarina – an epic, charting Catherine the I. of Russia’s rise from serf to Empress, as well as the country’s transformation from backward nation to super-power.
Yet similar to the German writer Karl May, who wrote Winnetou about the Wild West while sitting in prison, I had never been to Russia.
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