Speak of Me in Whispers: A Mystery in the History

by Violet Millhouse, Rosina Albert Wolfe

What do missing members of the Romanov family—supposedly executed in 1918—have to do with Imperial Russian treasures looted by the Nazis in 1943? Rostock, Germany, 1943: For months, the Nazis have been secretly shipping treasures looted from all over Europe to black market auctions outside the Third Reich. Now someone has been stealing from the Germans—but only items looted from the Romanov palace at Livadia, on the Black Sea. Lena Schiller must find the culprits before the Gestapo finds easier prey to blame—someone like her. Her Russian mother escaped the Russian Revolution when Lena was just a baby. But the woman disappeared a few years after her marriage, leaving her daughter behind. Did she leave, or was she murdered? Her mother also left behind a journal, with memories . . . and secrets. "Remember my name, my daughter, my dear one, but speak of me only in whispers." Authors' The excerpts to Russia 1918 are inspired by the actual journals and letters of the Romanov family and their friends at the time of the Revolution, plus other contemporaneous accounts of the Imperial internment.

442 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 21, 2017