TY - BOOK AU - Simons,Paullina TI - The bronze horseman: a novel SN - 0060199261 (hc : acidfree paper) AV - PS3569.I48763 B7 2001 U1 - 813/.54 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Flamingo KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Saint Petersburg KW - Fiction KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Sisters KW - Saint Petersburg (Russia) KW - History KW - Siege, 1941-1944 KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Love stories KW - War stories N2 - The Bronze Horseman is a historical fiction novel written by Paullina Simons and the first book in the Bronze Horseman Trilogy. The book begins on 22 June 1941, the day that Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the Second World War after Operation Barbarossa. Tatiana Metanova, nearly seventeen, meets the handsome and mysterious Red Army officer Alexander Belov.[1] The relationship between Tatiana and Alexander develops against the backdrop of the Siege of Leningrad and in the face of many difficulties. ER -