Blood Red, Snow White (25 page)

eISBN 9781626725485

First American edition, 2016

eBook edition, October 2016

The extract from
Old Peter’s Russian Tales
is reproduced here with kind permission from The Arthur Ransome Literary Estate

All telegrams have been sourced from and reproduced here with kind permission from The National Archives of the United Kingdom

CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

1942—Coniston

PART I:
A RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE

Once Upon a Time …

A Magical Land

Life and Blood

In the Name of the Tsar

Cruel Tales

Engagement and Escape

Fancy Wooden Box

O, Russia

Resurrection

God’s Instrument

Incidences of the Bizarre

Vladimir and Lev, the Russian and the Jew.

Execution

Miraculous February

Exit the Fairy Tale, Enter the Storyteller

Darkness into Daylight

PART II:
ONE NIGHT IN MOSCOW

Before

3:45 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

5:05 p.m.

5:40 p.m.

6:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Continued

6:10 p.m.

6:10 p.m. Continued

6:35 p.m.

7:20 p.m.

7:55 p.m.

8:10 p.m.

8:20 p.m.

8:50 p.m.

8:50 p.m. Continued

9:20 p.m.

9:20 p.m. Continued

9:20 p.m. Continued

9:35 p.m.

9:35 p.m. Continued

9:40 p.m.

PART III:
A FAIRY TALE, ENDING

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1942—Coniston

Fallen Leaves

Author’s Note

A Timeline

Ransome the Spy?

Appendix

Also by Marcus Sedgwick

About the Author

Copyright