The Light of the Righteous: The Brotherhood of the Mac

1814. Bonaparte is defeated, and the Russian army triumphantly enters Paris. Everything here is stunningly beautiful: the streets, the boulevards, the cathedrals, and the squares. And also – there are incredibly beautiful women here.
Lieutenant Nikolai Ozyarev is amazed by everything he sees. But the main event is yet to come – he meets Sophie de Champlite. A proud, free-spirited beauty, she is in mourning for her deceased husband and does not immediately accept the attentions of the Russian officer who fought against the French army. But eventually, he manages to win her heart. Nikolai vows that Sophie will never regret entrusting him with her fate. And she will never regret agreeing to leave with him to the distant, unfamiliar Russia.
Thus, they find themselves in St. Petersburg – a cold, majestic city, yet foreign to Sophie. And this is only the first part of their romance – and the first part of the cycle by Henri Troyat, whose series “The Light of the Righteous,” dedicated to the Decembrists, is written with great love for Russian history and great love for the heroes, whose prototypes made that history happen.