OL28467703M
Cleansing Flames
R. N. Morris
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Published
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9780571259151
- ISBN-10
- Unavailable
- Work ID
- OL21031165W
Description
It's Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution. In the meantime, junior magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky plays a dangerous game of his own.