After a few weeks of walking her home, Alexander and Tatiana's attraction is undeniable. However, Alexander visits her the following day, meeting her outside of the Kirov factory where she works. Tatiana is disappointed but doesn't want to come between him and her sister. When they arrive at Tatiana's apartment, they discover he is the man Dasha has fallen in love with. Alexander's irritating friend Dimitri insists on helping them carry the boxes home. While waiting for the next bus, she notices a red army officer watching her, and he eventually crosses the street and introduces himself as lieutenant Alexander Belov.Īfter an embarrassed introduction, Alexander and Tatiana become attracted to one another and he helps her buy food at the Officers' store. Unable to find much to buy, she buys a scoop of ice-cream, causing her to miss her bus. While her family focuses on sending Pasha safely away, Tatiana is entrusted with buying food and supplies. Tatiana, who is young and naive, is excited by the war. Tatiana's parents send her twin brother Pasha to a boys' camp so that the army won't draft him.
That same morning, Vyacheslav Molotov announces Germany has invaded the Soviet Union. Tatiana Metanova wakes up on 22 June 1941, the day before her 17th birthday, to her older sister Dasha coming home and declaring that she is in love. The relationship between Tatiana and Alexander develops against the backdrop of the Siege of Leningrad and in the face of many difficulties. Tatiana Metanova, nearly seventeen, meets the handsome and mysterious Red Army officer Alexander Belov.
The book begins on 22 June 1941, the day that Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the Second World War after Operation Barbarossa. The Bronze Horseman is a romance novel written by Paullina Simons and the first book in the Bronze Horseman Trilogy.
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